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Perhaps you will find this site more acceptable in respect to authenticity.

Exactly how?
I said "why should the majority be influenced by the minorities". If the majority of the people vote a certain way, than the minorities won't mean squat.....so let them vote.

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You are probably correct, but I still see no problem with them holding prayer....It takes what? Maybe 1 minute at most. It's the other time spent in cession that makes me worry.

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Anyone who thinks freedom comes cheap, please put the blindfold on and stand against the wall.

IT IS TIME for Americans to take back the country and start a new government.

My argument was based on determination of rights. Your response must be interpreted in that context. If it is not to be interpreted in that context, then it is irrelevant to the point. If a minority, say people of african descent get the right to vote (which they now have but didn't at one point), then election outcomes can change thus affecting the majority by that outcome. That changing of electoral outcome constitutes influence on what would have been the previous majority, unless of course one assumes completely monolithic voting in the majority (As in they all vote exactly the same).

I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with your opinion that prayer shouldn't be allowed in the legislature, but you keep stating as fact that it is unconstitutional. Hasn't this practice gone on since the days of the Founders who actually wrote the Constitution? Would they have allowed a practice that goes against the document they just wrote from day one?

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wikipedia...? Probably a bit because that, at least, can be reviewed by various people, though anyone who wants to can say whatever the hell they want, so I still wouldn't take it to the bank.

By the way, change "by" to "of" in your url, and suddenly those monstrous Christians become a lot more sympathetic:

Persecution of Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, The persecution of Christians is religious persecution that Christians sometimes undergo as a consequence of professing their faith,



I've no intention of claiming that bloody things haven't been done by Christians and in the name of Christianity. I was just expressing skepticism and a rather unverifiable and dubious source (generally speak, "viral" knowledge you find in email forwards and the like).

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What if they spent 1 minute talking about this week's episode of Survivor? Does it matter what piece of irrelevant fluff is occurring?

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

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A lot of slaves would have to say "yes, absolutely."

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Slavery was not unconstitutional at that time.

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Eyi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi

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As I recall, the founders couldn't agree on that point. They had gone to all the trouble of drawing up a document that would preclude such barbarism, but half of them had constituents that would have been pretty pissed off if they had practiced what they preached. So, they tentatively wrote provisions in for slavery (to last 20 years or something, and then expire), opting instead to defer the matter and let their kids sort it out.

So, my original point stands. The founders absolutely wrote in something that they knew was against the spirit of the document they were writing (in fact, they even agreed on a piece of semantics - defining "three fifths" of a human - in order to gussy up their hypocrisy).

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

I'm still more concerned/worried over what's being done with the rest of the time.....

But I get your point.

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Anyone who thinks freedom comes cheap, please put the blindfold on and stand against the wall.

IT IS TIME for Americans to take back the country and start a new government.

The time is irrelevant. It bothers me that an elected body of a secular government while in session injects religion. Out of session and individually I can care less. I do not even care if it occurs in the chamber. What I object to is when all the members are present a religious person gains access to the podium before business may begin. The highest law in this country is the Constitution, not the Bible and I am tired of the government acting like nothing can get done without acknowledging some higher power.

That being said, when they actually get someone of a non-Abrahamic faith up there, Christians interrupt and say that only THEIR prayer should be in government! Ridiculous! See link:

Three Christians disrupt Hindu prayer in U.S. Senate

Don’t know that one, England hadn’t existed yet when most of our songs were written so the best I can give you is old Latin: YouTube - Josh Groban Noel Ave MariaWell try and hang in there, soon you will receive the world you seek.

Do you have a comment on democratic state legislature Ako Abdul-Samad’s “Death or convert to Islam prayer in the state legislature, or does your concern lay with the other state legislatures being Christian???

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well they did try and hamstring any furthering of the slavery practice etc...the 3/5ths rule and a provision for abolishment of slavery after said 20 years...in effect though, they compromised and kicked the can down the road..in light of having to present a united front and get the thing signed and approved, they had to do it...

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