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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-11-10 01:50 PM
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10. It doesn't forbid any establishment of religion.
What the Constitution says is that Congress shall make no law RESPECTING an establishment of religion. It means that no law making Christianity or any other religion the "official religion" of the country can be passed, or that people will be forced to convert to a specific faith, or that people will be forced to worship.

Those assholes like to say "It's not freedom FROM religion!" In fact, it's both: freedom OF religion AND freedom from religion. It says "Your religious beliefs end where mine begin."
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  -"We haaave to go back to the constituuuutiooon!!!" That Is Quite Enough  Jul-11-10 01:16 PM   #0 
  - Problem is that as we do go back to the constitution  MadMaddie   Jul-11-10 01:18 PM   #1 
  - Just like "Freedom isn't free!" A catchphrase from the politically illiterate.  GoneOffShore   Jul-11-10 01:18 PM   #2 
  - They start to bleat it obediently every time some industry  Warpy   Jul-11-10 01:45 PM   #7 
  - I've never understood what the fuck they meant by that. Nt  xchrom   Jul-11-10 01:27 PM   #3 
  - Wrong place, oops!  Warpy   Jul-11-10 01:43 PM   #5 
  - Article 1 section 8  Greyhound   Jul-11-10 01:39 PM   #4 
  - The people who say this have never READ the Constitution.  Arkana   Jul-11-10 01:44 PM   #6 
  - We haven't gone away from the Constitution.  Dr Morbius   Jul-11-10 01:48 PM   #8 
  - It doesn't forbid any establishment of religion.  Arkana   Jul-11-10 01:50 PM   #10 
  - Most of those idiots haven't read the Bible either  Sebastian Doyle   Jul-11-10 01:53 PM   #11 
     - I had a man tell me last week that he was an "Old Testament Christian". What the  SharonAnn   Jul-11-10 04:02 PM   #15 
  - No women voting....no blacks free...white landowners calling the shots.  Ikonoklast   Jul-11-10 01:50 PM   #9 
  - Well, the amendments are part of the Constitution, so they can't go back that far.  Sebastian Doyle   Jul-11-10 01:55 PM   #12 
  - They're the same ppl who laughed when Bush wiped his ass w/ the Constitution.  Nay   Jul-11-10 03:24 PM   #13 
  - "I want my country back!!"  DCBob   Jul-11-10 03:26 PM   #14 
  - Those words used to actually mean something...  Sebastian Doyle   Jul-11-10 04:09 PM   #16 
  - Dat Contatusion say No homos eyeballing my body in that wet squirt thing! Heh!  Touchdown   Jul-11-10 07:01 PM   #17 
 

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