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From: shad@tikal.UUCP (Warren Shadwick)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 18:52:40 EST
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In article <322@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:

>
>2) State support of religion is banned by our constitution.  That is why
>   creationist "theory" is prevented from being taught in the schools by
>   the legal system.  If you wish to change the constitution, feel free to
>   try.
>

Which constitution are you speaking of here? and what state?  This must
be another instance of quoting the constitution of the USSR (the church
and the state shall be separate).

Education in the United States has had a longer history of religious
affiliation than federal government involvment.  I also note that you
should have said the public schools and not "the schools"; some of
the finest schools in the United States have been the religious or
religiously affiliated schools.

The U.S. Constituion has already been alterred by our legal system. The 
current non-establishment clause (of Amendment 1) being interpreted as 
a wall of separation and the free excercise clause being totally ignored.

					Warren N. Shadwick