I beg you, Women of Joy, to bring light and be involved, loving America and praying for her. Really, it is our solemn duty. Praying for true spiritual awakening to overcome deterioration. That is where God wants us to be. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.
--Sarah Palin
"...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
--Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association date January 1, 1802
Sarah Palin must have been absent from school they day they studied the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
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And then there is this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom
General Washington, being a Virginian, subscribed to this.
what a great catch. I do wonder how you came to be quoting SP in the first place????
Lorna, I wanted to use that quote because she seems to be implying that our founding fathers' intention was to meld the church and state. But the opposite is true. The early colonist came to this country to escape religious persecution only to persecute those around them that did not believe as they did. So the founding fathers rightfully built a constitutional wall between the church and the state. Now, we have some conservative evangelical revisionists that want to install a Christian theocracy and they are rewriting history. I am a Christian, but I don't think we honor God by telling lies to further what we think is his agenda here on earth.
There should be a separation of church and state. That being said each citizen has the right to practice, or not practice, any religion that he, or she , chooses to follow.
Paul: I agree
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