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John Drake
Then the states are perfectly free to forbid one or another religion within their borders, or establish state churches? cmon, you're not going to say Utah wouldn't have done it by now?
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Well, properly understood (not that the SCOTUS has a great track record of that), yes, there is NOTHING in the Federal Constitution proscribing that.
Now, many states (I am not sure if Utah is one of them or not) have similar restrictions in their own constitutions, but there is still nothing in the U.S. Constitution that proscribes them establishing or supporting religion.
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John Drake
Also, the words of the Declaration are 'endowed by their CREATOR,' They were specifically careful NOT to use the word god. Creator could mean anything, including simply the Universe itself which does indisputably create everything that exists
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No, it is a personified noun, were they speaking of a general right that we have merely because or our existence (rather than being endowed with by an specific entity), it would have said endowed by our CREATION, not Creator.
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