School board candidate takes on notion of 'separation of church and state'

[jerico641]

1:16 - you can't help a kid without preaching at him, coach?? Btw, where did you get your counselling degree? What do you do? I'll tell you what you don't do; you don't preach.

[BkupAcct]

Unable to ask even the simplest question without first acknowledging that "it's important for us to have Christian values." That's how brainwashed Americans have become. Too bad about the Jews, muslims, sikhs, hindus, atheists, et al.

[jfsfrnd]

@BkupAcct What? You want pluralism?

[jfsfrnd]

You can see by Madisons statements that the first section of the first amendment, ''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion'' does not mean starting a government mandated religious denomination like they had in England.

[jfsfrnd]

2 - The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them; and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does not this involve the principle of a national establishment, applicable to a provision for a religious worship for the Constituent as well as of the representative Body, approved by the majority, and conducted by Ministers of religion paid by the entire nation?

[jfsfrnd]

1 - From Madison's Detached Memoranda.

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

[jfsfrnd]

I wonder what you would do if your kid who was somehow troubled and his life in a mess went to condfide in his pagan teacher who could now introduce him to his pagan religion and belief system as a fix to his problems.