Family Values?

[Omahabound]

Originally Posted by JoeMama2009

If anybody wants to live in a country run by religion, move to Iran!

Who wants religion to run the country?

[JoeMama2009]

Originally Posted by Omahabound

Who wants religion to run the country?

Neoconservative Christians, Radical Islam...

[mwruckman]

Originally Posted by Omahabound

On the contrary, it merely not "prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

The key point is you can do this on your or anyone else who consents private property. You could even do what happens in the Phillipines where a volenteer gets to renact the cruciviction by being nailed to a cross. Just don't do it on public property

[Xpat]

Originally Posted by Omahabound

TJ -
"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."

I'll take his word over yours any day.

...which is not from the text of the Constitution. The Constitution isn't "my word" - its the law of the land - any no where in it does it say we're a "Christian nation."

You can wish all you want but that won't put magically a state religion into the Constitution.