RE: If You Ruled Your Own Country, Would You Ban Religion?
April 30, 2015 at 11:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2015 at 11:54 pm by Jenny A.)
(April 30, 2015 at 10:04 pm)Polaris Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 11:22 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Exactly. When public school teachers are on the clock, they're an extension of the government. That's why private schools have no such restrictions.
Regarding the military, they don't receive religious services during their duty shifts, correct? And the military hires more than one flavor of religious service personnel, so as to serve all (or as many can be, logistically) faiths in its branches, correct? Completely different scenario.
I view that as a very extreme and erroneous view of the 1st Amendment and it violates the 1st Amendment.
But I don't and more importantly the Supreme Court doesn't.
Besides, the question is what I would do as dictator. The First Amendment is irrelevant to that question.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
