vicente
3rd March 2005, 09:50 AM
"there may be an "obsessive concern" over any mention of religion. People could simply look away" Justice Anthony Kennedy
""You can't get the Declaration of Independence out of the Ten Commandments." Justice Antonin Scalia
These inept, faith-based Supreme Court Justices should be jailed,..or better yet, castrated and sent to Afganistan to live as Taliban women.
According to Article VI of the United States Constitution "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"
Under George Washington, a document was drafted in 1796, then unanimously ratified by the US Senate and sign into law on June 10, 1797 by President John Adams which said:
"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion".
That statement is THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.
Even though that document was read aloud in Congress without dissension, and well publicized at the time, there were no complaints or public outcry, as when Christians balked over the illegality of the addition of 'under god' in the Pledge. In fact, at the signing of the above 1797 document, Adams said, "Now be it known, that I, John Adams, President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End, may it be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill every clause and article thereof".
If America is to faithfully observe and fulfill every clause and article of that document, it is time to replace the McCarthy Era motto of 'In God We Trust', and return to the Motto created by Franklin, Jefferson and Adams ,...'E Pluribus Unum'.
On February 10, 1814 Thomas Jefferson wrote that common law "is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement in England…about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century.…We may safely affirm that Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." Christian values are not American values.
http://skepticreport.com/tools/10command.htm
"America is one nation under a Constitution. Although the Constitution sets up a representative democracy, it specifically was amended with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to uphold individual and minority rights. On constitutional matters we do not have majority rule. The monotheistic Christian majority has no right to tyrannize the minority (atheists, polytheists, Buddhists, Deists, Wiccans, Humanists, female based monotheists, etc)on matters of religion.
Not only is it unAmerican for the government to promote religion, it is rude. Whenever a public official uses the office to advance religion, someone is offended. The wisest policy is one of neutrality."
:)
""You can't get the Declaration of Independence out of the Ten Commandments." Justice Antonin Scalia
These inept, faith-based Supreme Court Justices should be jailed,..or better yet, castrated and sent to Afganistan to live as Taliban women.
According to Article VI of the United States Constitution "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"
Under George Washington, a document was drafted in 1796, then unanimously ratified by the US Senate and sign into law on June 10, 1797 by President John Adams which said:
"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion".
That statement is THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.
Even though that document was read aloud in Congress without dissension, and well publicized at the time, there were no complaints or public outcry, as when Christians balked over the illegality of the addition of 'under god' in the Pledge. In fact, at the signing of the above 1797 document, Adams said, "Now be it known, that I, John Adams, President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End, may it be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill every clause and article thereof".
If America is to faithfully observe and fulfill every clause and article of that document, it is time to replace the McCarthy Era motto of 'In God We Trust', and return to the Motto created by Franklin, Jefferson and Adams ,...'E Pluribus Unum'.
On February 10, 1814 Thomas Jefferson wrote that common law "is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement in England…about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century.…We may safely affirm that Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." Christian values are not American values.
http://skepticreport.com/tools/10command.htm
"America is one nation under a Constitution. Although the Constitution sets up a representative democracy, it specifically was amended with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to uphold individual and minority rights. On constitutional matters we do not have majority rule. The monotheistic Christian majority has no right to tyrannize the minority (atheists, polytheists, Buddhists, Deists, Wiccans, Humanists, female based monotheists, etc)on matters of religion.
Not only is it unAmerican for the government to promote religion, it is rude. Whenever a public official uses the office to advance religion, someone is offended. The wisest policy is one of neutrality."
:)