RE: Are you for or against the separation of church and state?
April 13, 2013 at 12:57 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2013 at 1:01 am by radorth.)
(April 12, 2013 at 10:26 am)cato123 Wrote: Radorth,
Picture of Jefferson's headstone (the contents of which were dictated by Jefferson):
Text of "An Act to Establish Religious Freedom" (see page 2):
http://www.calhum.org/files/uploads/prog...reedom.pdf
No debate required.
Well excuse me, you did not answer the question. If he attended Protestant services in the capitol building, what did he mean by a "wall of separation"?
There is debate required because yo don't know. You are just pasting stuff as if it answered questions people should reasonably ask.
(April 11, 2013 at 8:00 pm)festive1 Wrote: And that's just fine and dandy with me too, so long as it is not extended to making policies imposing those religious views on others (ie. teaching creationism in schools, not allowing divorce, etc.).
When Jefferson was president of the D.C. schools, was he imposing Christianity on children by permitting Bible reading? If he had them read his "Jefferson Bible" as it is called, would that be violating his own "wall of separation"?
(Not that I think it should be read there, but the question needs to be answered)