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legalassist - It simply isn't true that liberals misinterpret the First Amendment when they say it requires the "separation between church and state." The Supreme Court as said the same many times. For example, 1878 decision of Reynolds v. U.S, 98 U.S. 145 at page 164 quotes Jefferson's Jan. 1, 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Assoc from which the phrase is derived. Or more recently in McCreary County v. ACLU of Ky., 545 U.S. 844 (2005) the Supreme Court said: "The touchstone for our analysis is the principle that the 'First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.'" (At p. 860). No matter which of the two phases one prefers, they both mean that government has NO role to play in advancing religion in the United States.
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E. Raiford - as a member of the Supreme Court Bar, I can attest to the fact that the Ten Commandments are not etched on the large front doors entering the courtroom of the Supreme Court. And did you know that so-called Ten Commandments that Moses is holding on the South Wall Frieze actually command people to "murder," "steal" and "commit adultery." (Transcript, Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (page 9). The sculptor -- Adolph Weinman -- played quite a joke on the Supreme Court. Religious monuments don't belong on public property because state property is to benefit all, not just persons of a single faith.
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