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Re: First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and nonreligion
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Originally Posted by Eagle88
I'm not really sure what you are referring to. My post above was responding to previous posts claiming that the Declaration of Independence was not referencing God. Could you explain what you mean a little more?
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I understood that the DOI was being used to ascertain the meaning of the Constitution as regards the relationship of religion to civil authority. I was pointing out that the DOI, at least in my most humble of views, is irrelevant when it comes to ascertaining the meaning of the Constitution, unless allowed under the rules of construction, as they existed in the late 1780's.
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I find it appalling that Justice Antonin Scala, in his dissenting opinion in McCreary County v. ACLU, constructed his model of "the relationship between church and state" in America without even considering the actual text of the Constitution. How do incompetents like him get on the U. S. Supreme Court?
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