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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Violation of separation church and state?
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 02:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 02:07:00 1985
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>/* mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina) / 11:18 am  May 30, 1985 */

>I do not see a violation of the Seperation requirement if a President
>uses God in his speech, if God is marked on a coin, or if a Priest
>makes the opening invocation at a governmental function.  I would interested
>in knowing why readers on the net see such a conflict.

If a president uses god in his speech, and that speech is at a government
function, that function is paid for by the government, his time is being paid
for by the government, etc., then it is government acting to establish
a religion.

						Mike Sykora