Does any one know where the so call seperation of church and state bill is written?
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The question that Kegman asks here is, in fact, valid. The Constitution makes no *specific* reference to the separation of church and state. The first reference to that notion was in the Federalist papers, I believe.
Actually it is the bill of rights.
Kimball - I just thought of this the other day, but the first amendment leaves a MASSIVE loophole.
@Jesse
Doctor X is quite right. Looking at just the founding fathers to determine what the bill of rights means is narrow in light of the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment incorporates most of the bill of rights to apply to state and local governments. Over the last 90 years the Supreme Court has applied most of these rights (though not all) to local governments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_%28Bill_of_Rights%29
The Last Conformist #7416
(*Slaps Kegman so hard, he, his mother and his high school civics teacher revert back to their pre-fertilised ovum state *)
14th Amendment, and Treaty of Tripoli, bitch!
It really does say so much about a country, when more people outside that country know more about it's history and Constitution than a sizeable proportion of said country's own population.
Isn't it somewhere in the Treaty of Tripoli, among other places?
Sweden is a much more Christian nation than the US of A. We've had a state church during most of my lifetime (up until 2000), and most Swedes still have to actively leave the Swedish Church if they don't want to be counted as Christians. Before 1996, every born child who had parents who were Christians became a Christian automatically. Me for example, and I haven't left the Church yet, as I like the burial ceremony, and the Swedish Church is much calmer and quieter than the American versions seem to be. They do much good, and televangelism is a rare phenomenon over here.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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