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ETM I understand how it is interpreted "Separation of church and state" and how it is incorporated, however I feel this interpretation is wrongly used in everyday thinking. People have heard it over and over they seem to think it is written in the Bill of Rights that way. No it hasn't and still isn't. The courts have observed Thomas Jeffersons words in a letter he wrote to further distinguish the First Amendment.
That being said, I feel mg33, to whom I was commenting to, doesn't understand what it means when he was quoting the famous words "separation of church and state" with a polling center being in a church as unconstitutional.
I feel this interpretation of "separation of church and state" has become perverse, it does not mean the removal of all Christian theism in our public domain. Which, unfortunately to some, is our heritage. It is the interpretation that is the problem. It was meant to keep government out of the church's business, not the removal of church in government's business.
- You have literally no idea about how the separation has ever been ruled on, by Supreme Courts, etc, have you ?mikotondria3
- I do, but its wrongly interpreted.whhipp
- IMO.whhipp
- Well you're stuck with what everyone else thinks it means and how they rule, so suck it up and start your own country.mikotondria3
- "Welcome to Whippland."mg33
- Whhippland, that has a nice ring to it!whhipp
- You LITERALLY have it backward whhipp. It's to keep religion out of government completely.monospaced