Reply #134: Perhaps you should take the plank of history distortion out of your eye...

[JHB]

...before you complain about the splinter in someone elses?

In debates about official prayers in public schools, those advocating such often use quote Ben Franklin's motion at the Constitutional Convention to start each day with a prayer for guidance. But they never mention the outcome of that motion: it was set aside and never voted on, so our Founding Fathers, assembled for the very purpose of drafting the legal framework for our nation, went about their business of doing so with only whatever prayers they felt they needed to make privately, without a daily exercise of enforced piety. And in that light, it shouldn't be any surprise that the Consititution itself contains no pieties and no mentions of God nor divinity.

I should also add that one of the ways the we "keep government from infringing on citizens' practice of religion" is, in fact (though poorly stated), by "keep(ing) God out of government", or rather, not using public offices to favor one religious viewpoint over another.

Perhaps you can tell me: Where in this new visitor's center is "E Pluribus Unum" engraved? Because if it's not, that's an omission of history too, but yet I never hear anyone complaining about "political correctness" at its absence.