18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
1stbig.jpg All Americans need to learn what it ACTUALLY says.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
Actually, I think it's both, really. A state run religion would be preferential treatment almost by default, and that would violate the Equal Protections Clause. At the same time, if the government "sanctions" certain religions and not others, then they're getting into the territory of deciding which religions are "right" and which are "wrong".
"Government screws up everything. If government says black, you can bet it's white. If government says sit still for your safety, you'd better run for your life!"
--Wayne Allyn Root
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I agree. In fact, it explicitly telling us they cant stop us from exposing you to any religion.
Which means I have a right to go door to door sharing the Gospel. You have the right to shut the door in my face. But I do have the right to exercise my religion freely and share it with others.
If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and i pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ben Franklin
Imagine what good we can do if we all joined together, united as followers of Christ - M. Russell Ballard
"I perceive two fundamental difficulties with a narrow reading of the Press Clause.
First, although certainty on this point is not possible, the history of the Clause does not suggest that the authors contemplated a “special” or “institutional” privilege. . . . Most pre-First Amendment commentators “who employed the term ‘freedom of speech’ with great frequency, used it synonymously with freedom of the press.” . . .
Those interpreting the Press Clause as extending protection only to, or creating a special role for, the “institutional press” must either
(a) assert such an intention on the part of the Framers for which no supporting evidence is available . . . ;
(b) argue that events after 1791 somehow operated to “constitutionalize” this interpretation . . . ; or
(c) candidly acknowledging the absence of historical support, suggest that the intent of the Framers is not important today. . . .
The second fundamental difficulty with interpreting the Press Clause as conferring special status on a limited group is one of definition. . . . The very task of including some entities within the “institutional press” while excluding others, whether undertaken by legislature, court, or administrative agency, is reminiscent of the abhorred licensing system of Tudor and Stuart England—a system the First Amendment was intended to ban from this country. . . . In short, the First Amendment does not “belong” to any definable category of persons or entities: It belongs to all who exercise its freedoms."
Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in response to the press-as-institution view:
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/...9/sentelle.pdf
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
Live as free people, yet without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but live at all times as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
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Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
Live as free people, yet without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but live at all times as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16