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Article #537Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 22:44
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 22:44
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Mike Smith (mws@wt.net) wrote:
: On 1 Jul 2002 16:10:29 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:
: > Please clarify for me, Mike: when you say, "the phrase 'Under
: >God' does not violate his 1st Amendment rights," are you simply
: >saying the court was wrong or is there more to it?
: All of our first amendment rights are the same. The Congress of the
: United States cannot pass a law respecting a religion. It does not
: prohibit Congress from passing a law acknowledging a Supreme Being;
: unless Congress states, in that law, that the Supreme Being is
: Catholic, or Baptist, or Islamic, or etc....... Congress is prohibited
: from naming a National religion by using their law-making power that
: the Constitution grants them. (The "Congress shall pass no law" part)
: That's all there is, plain and simple.
: IOW, yes, the 9th District Court was wrong, although that is nothing
: unusual for that Court.
OK, I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something.
The Ninth _Circuit_ Court has determined that forcing or
pressuring public-school students to acknowledge a supreme being
does indeed violate the First Amendment. Various Supreme Court
decisions can be read either way on this question, but they may
now be forced to make a definitive statement.
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