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08/11/08 10:36 AM

#345356 RE: rbl100 #345352

America's founding ways of life are Judeo-Christian.

Can you find some support for this statement in any of America's foundation documents?


[If you cannot make yourself an American and follow American values and beliefs (American Culture)...Then do not step foot on OUR soil!

[same question]

I don't believe America was founded on the kind of bigotry you're discussing. It's true that very racist and exclusionary practices have occurred here, but the law itself, our Constitution, does not call for that.

As a matter of fact, quite the opposite is true.

...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. ”

This has been interpreted to mean that no federal employee, whether elected or appointed, "career" or "political," can be required to adhere to or accept any religion or belief. This clause immediately follows one requiring all federal and state officers to take an oath of support to the Constitution. This implies that the requirement of an oath, even presumably one taken "So help me God" (not a part of the presidential oath, the only one spelled out in the Constitution, but traditionally almost always added to it), does not imply any requirement by those so sworn to accept a particular religion or a particular doctrine.

The clause is cited by advocates of separation of church and state as an example of "original intent" of the Framers of the Constitution of avoiding any entanglement between church and state, or involving the government in any way as a determiner of religious beliefs or practices. This is important as this clause represents the words of the original Framers, even prior to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.





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