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From: shad@teldata.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 15:48:07 EDT
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Reply-To: shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren Shadwick)
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> Michael McNeil writes:
>
>The United States was established as a *secular* nation because so
>many states were founded by individuals who had experienced religious
>persecution.

Let's be a little more specific here.  The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT of the
United States as created in and by the Constiution was not to endorse
or adopt a religion as a NATIONAL religion, nor was the federal
government to interfere in the State's and peoples' right to freely
exercise their religious beliefs.

This prohibition does not extend to the States, some of which already
had a state-endorsed and sponsored religion.

How was this done?  Check the first Amendment; Congress was prohibited
from making laws respecting religion.  Without laws the federal executive
could not enforce anything and without laws the federal courts were to
have no jurisdiction over religious matters.

The federal courts have overstepped their bounds and usurped jurisdicion
where they have none.  Recent legislation attempting to limit the 
unconstitutional actions of the federal judiciary have been unsuccessful, 
but will not be forgotten.

This is a Christian nation simply because a majority of the people in
the United States are Christians.  We do not need, nor should we want,
a declaration of Congress to make it so.
 
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Warren N. Shadwick
... ihnp4!uw-beaver!tikal!shad


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