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Lv 6

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;?

or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

If there is no mention of separation of Church and state, does that mean there is no separation of:

Synagogue and state

Mosque and state

Hindu Temple and state

Buddhist monastery and state...

etc?

Free Exercise thereof guarantees freedom OF and FROM religion, doesn't it?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    AMEN!

    er....

    I mean.....

    Yeah. What he said.

  • 8 years ago

    With this question, you have hit the nail on the head of what is wrong in our country today. The is NO mention of :"separation of church and state" in the US Constitution. What the amendment does say is that the government cannot favor one religion over any other.

    This is why the decisions forbidding the posting of a nativity scene on any government property are wrong. But-they are wrong ONLY if that government does not allow another religious sect to also erect a display.,

    But, take this one step further. With all the recent decisions, the Supreme Court has, indeed, violated the Constitution. How? They have "established" atheism as the official religion.

  • Congress is full of BS all day long.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    NO!

    It does NOT say or mean freedom from religion....it means Freedom OF religion.

    You are free to practice any religion you want, or none at all, BUT it does NOT mean atheists can remove religion from the public square, or government!

    And islam is NOT a religion, it is a failed ideologue!!! And an evil one at that.......

  • ronbo
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    its right. any religion. so really church and state conflict with the Constitution

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes. It also establishes that the state cannot be involved in religious affairs. The separation of church and state is an obvious and implied logical outcome of the state not supporting a church.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    you look like a disembodied head, have you considered seeing a doctor about that?

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