(October 4, 2016 at 11:05 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(October 3, 2016 at 2:25 pm)Drich Wrote: ahh, no.
to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion,
How is restricting the formal declaration of God and country not an impediment of the free exercise of religion?
Are you not petitioning congress to restrict how the practice of Christianity goes down, by mandating the removal of God in the pledge?
Far be it for me to tell a US citizen what his constitution is about, except, and this is a big one here, you haven't the first fucking clue about what the constitution is about.
The establishment clause has been settled as having two very important components, first that the US government will not establish a religion for the nation, and therefore will not privilege any individual religion over another. This means the state will not fund religion, will not pass laws on religious lines, will not impose religious tests on public representatives or employees nor demand that anybody in the US follow a particular religious line. And, because it is a constitutional imperative, each and every state legally has to follow the same line, any state doing otherwise is committing treason just as if they tried to secede (so a state that allows a mural of the ten commandments on its courthouses is acting with treasonable intent under the law).
The second component is that the state has no right to interfere in any individual's religious beliefs or lack thereof. And knowing you and your Talibanist tendencies that must grate at you every single day of your life, that there is no way for you to force others to bend their knees to your particular perception of god, his rules and your prejudices. And part of that is a declaration that the US is "one nation under god (meaning the christian conception of yhwh) is actually illegal under the US constitution, despite what you may think, and your fellow christian taliban fundies in the Republitard party may solemnly swear is possible.
Ahhh no again.. Might want to check the video I posted earlier (the tour of the capitol building) Histroy seems to disagree with your liberal take on the bill-o-rights.