02-21-2004, 03:52 PM
GonzoStyle Wrote:Granted you got me there, I meant in the original document not it's amendments.It was originally in a private letter, so I don't know why people act like it's part of The Bill of Rights.
But as far as the seperation of church and state take it from the authors mouth.
Quote:I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. - Thomas Jefferson (1804)
It must be the dumbing down of public school education. It's more important for children to learn that it's OK for Heather to have two mommy's, then the foundation of our Republic.
The spooks come out at night.