As the church lady would say, “Well isn’t the Special?” I usually don’t re-post Gordon’s ‘Crap’ but his latest segment had me laughing. He talks about our Founding Fathers intent with freedom and religion. Howie-doodle gets it partially correct, the founding fathers did want freedom to be religious, and wanted government out of their churches, well guess what, the founding fathers expected the same from religion, stay out of the government. It is an agreement that has worked well for over 200 years, and it is not broken. Gordon thinks we need more religion in government (he has his undies in a bunch about gay marriage).
Just look at Iraq now, what do you think they are fighting over? Religion in government. No thanks, I hope we learned something from our own civil war, they are messy.
I think things are fine just the way they are. I think Gordon just needed an excuse to bring a bible loving blonde on his program.
Gay Marraige is also to blame for this past week’s weather.
So as a matter of fact, just what does the constitution say about religion?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
David Barton, historian at WallBuilders, provides an informative discussion, using historical references, on the “establishment of religion” and “free exercise thereof” phrases in the First Amendment which recognizes the natural and inalienable rights of our citizens to religious freedom. Congress cannot establish a religion (government cannot create or validate a religion) or prohibit the free exercise thereof (government cannot prevent or hinder the unrestrained practice of a citizen’s religion).
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=123