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Re: First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and nonreligion
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Originally Posted by Eagle88
The Constitution does not give government authority over religion...
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I agree.
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but that does not mean that a general respect... to religion is prohibited
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I agree, as long as the respect proffered by the civil authority doesn't involve even the slightest color of civil authority over religion.
The best way for civil government to respect religion is to exclude it from it's cognizance and allow each person to obey his religious conscience, provided it does not require him to violate the law, do injury to his neighbor or violate his social duties.
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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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