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Reply #15: Also keep in mind..
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tedoll78
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Wed Aug-20-03 11:44 PM
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Congress has passed and still passes laws that fund state operations. Given that Congress' tentacles reach so far into each state's activities, a state action to allegedly favor one religion over another can be construed as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
Then there are Equal Protection considerations. Which version of the Ten Commandments do we post? Protestant or Roman Catholic? Murder or kill? Obey or honor? And why do we put certain religions' "legal" principles on display prominently while not doing so for others? I'm sure that Voodoo or Wicca or Satanism have principles that can be tagged as legally relevent. But still, we ignore those religions and go only with the Christians/Jewish/Muslim laws.
Something to ponder.
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