Author Topic: Huckabee wants to change Constitution (Read 2136 times)

SirLoin · « **Reply #75 on:** January 20, 2008, 04:16:30 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron

Congress can't make laws respecting an establishment of religion. That certainly does not prohibit any member of congress acting on their own religious beliefs even to the point of making laws based on those personal beliefs. To the contrary, the second phrase guarantees them that right.

You can't make laws establishing religion as state policy,but you are free to try..that is how i interpret it.

And that's what makes it so great.

AKIron · « **Reply #76 on:** January 20, 2008, 09:49:04 PM »

If we can agree that the first phrase only prevents congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion we then need to agree on what constitutes "an establishment of religion". I take this as a specific body of organization and not neccessarily religion in general.

I think many have taken liberties with this amendment distorting it beyond recognition. It really is intended to be taken quite literally imo.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #77 on:** January 20, 2008, 11:31:17 PM »

Just means no "Church of America" kinda like England had and has. I love how people love to put things in it that arent there like the right to kill babies, but try to take out what is in there plainly written.

SirLoin · « **Reply #78 on:** January 21, 2008, 12:14:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Pooh21
Just means no "Church of America" kinda like England had and has. I love how people love to put things in it that arent there like the right to kill babies, but try to take out what is in there plainly written.

I thought you had to pay a tax to the Church of England(compulsory tax)?