alt.education

Josh Rosenbluth wrote:

>:|Jeff Strickland wrote:
>:|
>:|>
>:|> wrote in message
>:|> news:90bqt3psj288dehm1q156sqrsjt81kgimf@4ax.com...
>:|>
>:|>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:55:22 +0000, ZerkonX
>:|>> wrote:
>:|>>
>:|>>> The proposition here is:
>:|>>>
>:|>>> By not allowing prayer in schools but by allowing prayer to be heard
>:|>>> inside government chambers, a crime has been committed.
>:|>>
>:|>>
>:|>> Schools are venues of learning and if government
>:|>> sanctions "prayer"--it is advocacy or promotion of
>:|>> religion
>:|>>
>:|>
>:|> Doesn't the same advocacy or promotion exist when government prays in
>:|> the halls of Congress and/or the highest court in the land?
>:|
>:|I think so, and the Court in upholding the prayers didn't conclude
>:|otherwise. Instead they chose to ignore that criterion, sending us on
>:|the road to the confusing and conflicting Establishment Clause
>:|jurisprudence we are currently saddled with.


The court was honoring politics instead of law:

Revisiting Marsh v. Chambers
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/marshchm.htm



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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
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. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
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That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.

It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
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