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U.S. Constitution Title: Christine O'Donnell Asks Where Constitution Calls For Separation Of Church, State
WASHINGTON -- Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware is questioning whether the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing religion. In a debate at Widener University Law School, O'Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons' position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine. O'Donnell asked where the Constitution calls for the separation of church and state. When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?" Delaware Senate The exchange Tuesday aired on radio station WDEL generated a buzz among law professors and students in the audience. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Comments (1-139) not displayed.
Piss off, wacko. You always have to resort to personal attacks. -----------------------------------------------------------
#141. To: WhiteSands (#140) You always have to resort to personal attacks. You start them, Whitey.
#142. To: WhiteSands (#140) Piss off, wacko. He probably got some sand in his vaseline jar.
#143. To: lucysmom (#137) Please accept my apologies! No problem at all.
#144. To: meguro (#141) Use my copy anbd paste instructions to prove you assertion. Or remain the syph infected liar we see here. -----------------------------------------------------------
#145. To: WhiteSands (#144) Use my copy anbd paste instructions to prove you assertion. Eat shit and die, mental case.
#146. To: no gnu taxes, meguro (#142) If he can share where he lives, travel and his age, given his sexual orientation, we can tell what the CDC odds are that he is infected with Syph.
That wold explain his behavior. -----------------------------------------------------------
#147. To: meguro (#145) Eat shit and die, mental case. You have chosen , or do you feel it's gentic, to remain the syph infected liar we see here. -----------------------------------------------------------
#148. To: WhiteSands (#146) If he can share where he lives, travel and his age, given his sexual orientation, we can tell what the CDC odds are that he is infected with Syph. Like I told you before, mental case, eat shit and die.
#149. To: WhiteSands (#147) You have chosen , or do you feel it's gentic, to remain the syph infected liar we see here. Whatever, mentally diseased one....
#150. To: meguro (#149) Syphilis is no joke you Hetrophobe. They can slow the damage it's causing you. -----------------------------------------------------------
#151. To: WhiteSands (#150) Syphilis is no joke you Hetrophobe. Speak from experience?
#152. To: meguro (#151) (Edited) Hardly. I am not gay. The disease runs rampant where ever the gay community is strong. But given the amount of Doctors and Nurses in my family I do know the meds can help you. For a while. -----------------------------------------------------------
#153. To: all (#147) Saying there is no separation of church and state, is like saying there is no separation of powers in the US constitution. Both are paraphrases for what the constitution says. Any conservatives going to argue the constitution doesn't have a separation of powers? The Constitution gives the Federal government no power over religious matters, and specifically bans establishment and bans the infringement of religious freedom. To the critics who say there is no federal separation of church and state, where does the Constitution give the government power to influence the church? Where does it give the government the power to regulation a persons religious beliefs? What are you going to do argue the commerce clause?
#154. To: WhiteSands (#152) I am not gay. I wonder about that. I'm also younger, healthier, stronger, and more mentally cogent than you, loser.
#155. To: Rhino (#153) (Edited) Paraphrase (pronounced /ÈpærYfrejz/) is restatement of a text or passages, using other words.
It's not a paraphrase it's a complete rewrite. -----------------------------------------------------------
#156. To: meguro (#154) I wonder about that. Again you use the homosexuals hate homosexuals argument. That will not go over will at the White Swallow. -----------------------------------------------------------
#157. To: meguro (#154) I'm also younger, healthier, stronger, and more mentally cogent than you, loser. Why does Canada discriminate against gays? -----------------------------------------------------------
#158. To: WhiteSands (#157) Why does Canada discriminate against gays? Careful Whitey, if you continue to post to me, you might catch syphilis!
#159. To: Rhino (#153) where does the Constitution give the government power to influence the church? They already influence churches. Can Churches tell folks how to vote with out losing tax status? Why is the US fuding an Imams speaking tour? -----------------------------------------------------------
#160. To: WhiteSands (#156) Again you use the homosexuals hate homosexuals argument. Sometimes quite true. That will not go over will at the White Swallow. Where? Is this some place you frequent? The name of the mental hospital you're institutionalized at?
#161. To: WhiteSands, rhino (#159) Careful, rhino, Whitey's off his meds big time today.
#162. To: meguro (#158) Careful Whitey, if you continue to post to me, you might catch syphilis! Meg your statement supports the need to regulate homosexuals. You don't know how Syphilis is spread. -----------------------------------------------------------
#163. To: Rhino (#153) Saying there is no separation of church and state, If there is separation of church and state, then the Federal governmemt should have no say so in what religion is or is not taught in local schools. Of course, we know that is notxthe case. Idiots like Coons don't realize they are not arguing for separation; they are arguing against it.
#164. To: meguro (#161) Meg continues his hetrophobia. -----------------------------------------------------------
#165. To: WhiteSands (#162) Meg your statement supports the need to regulate homosexuals. So regulate me, Whitey. Go for it.
#166. To: WhiteSands (#159) They already influence churches. Can I start a political party and not pay taxes on my property? No. So Churches aren't being treated any different from anyone else. The same revocation would happen to any non for profit group.
#167. To: no gnu taxes (#163) (Edited) I know you know this. But there is no separation of church and state. There is a prohibition against CONGRESS ONLY from prohibiting people from practicing their religion or from the CONGRESS from interfering with peoples free exercise of their religion. The godless liberals just like to say separation of church and state because it is easier to spin then the words in the constitution.
#168. To: no gnu taxes (#163) If there is separation of church and state, How can the Fed grant tax exemptions to "Churches"? How can the Fed pay for Imams to tour the ME? They will never move to challenge tax exemptions for "Churches". -----------------------------------------------------------
#169. To: no gnu taxes (#163)
The 14th amendment now forces all levels of government to follow the Bill of Rights. This means the State governments have to have a separation of church and state as well. Of course most states have a separation built into their constitution as well. The Federal government doesn't tell the states they can't teach religion, the US Constitution does. You are effectively arguing that the right to bears arms, means the Fed's can't tell you whether your state can tell you have guns or not have guns. That is really twisted logic. Furthermore why do Conservatives want godless commie schools teaching their kids religion anyway?
#170. To: A K A Stone (#167) I know you know this. But there is no separation of church and state. There is a prohibition against CONGRESS ONLY from prohibiting people from practicing their religion or from the CONGRESS from interfering with peoples free exercise of their religion. The godless liberals just like to say separation of church and state because it is easier to spin then the words in the constitution. Godless Liberals like Thomas Jefferson. What an anti American piece of shit that guy was huh?
#171. To: A K A Stone (#167) The founders were wise they knew that writing no establishment clause would stop them form ever establishing a national religion. If one religion can do so , all could. -----------------------------------------------------------
#172. To: A K A Stone (#167) I know you know this. But there is no separation of church and state. There is a prohibition against CONGRESS ONLY from prohibiting people from practicing their religion or from the CONGRESS from interfering with peoples free exercise of their religion. The godless liberals just like to say separation of church and state because it is easier to spin then the words in the constitution. Also how is teaching one religion in a school not infringing on your right to practice your religion? How would you like it if you had to move to Boston, MA and the teachers taught Catholic Dogma as fact, in school? Your religious American forefathers moved to the United States to be free of government interference in their religion. This isn't even a controversial part of American history.
#173. To: Rhino (#170) Thomas Jefferson was a great President. Maybe the best. He wasn't godless either. Do you know that the creator in the Declaration is God? He was a creationist.
#174. To: A K A Stone (#173) Thomas Jefferson was a great President. Maybe the best. He wasn't godless either. Do you know that the creator in the Declaration is God? He was a creationist. Yea no shit, I was being facetious. To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut. Gentlemen The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing. Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from prescribing even those occasional performances of devotion, practiced indeed by the Executive of another nation as the legal head of its church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association assurances of my high respect & esteem. (signed) Thomas Jefferson Jan.1.1802.
#175. To: Rhino (#172) Also how is teaching one religion in a school not infringing on your right to practice your religion? How would you like it if you had to move to Boston, MA and the teachers taught Catholic Dogma as fact, in school? I don't send my kids to govt school. Everyone should be to send their kids to the school of their choice if they qualify. If we are to have govt education. The money should follow the student and not the district.
#176. To: All (#174) If anyone wants to know what that sound is, it's AKAStone realizing he in fact doesn't know everything.
#177. To: A K A Stone (#175)
I think a voucher system is a better system than what we have now.
#178. To: Rhino (#170) Godless Liberals like Thomas Jefferson. What an anti American piece of shit that guy was huh? He was Godless? Source that one please. He didn't believe in religion. ===============
Jefferson says he was a "Materialist" (letter to Short, Apr. 13, 1820) and a "Unitarian" (letter to Waterhouse, Jan. 8, 1825). Jefferson rejected the Christian doctrine of the "Trinity" (letter to Derieux, Jul. 25, 1788), as well as the doctrine of an eternal Hell (letter to Van der Kemp, May 1, 1817). Further, Jefferson specifically named Joseph Priestly (English Unitarian who moved to America) and Conyers Middleton (English Deist) and said: "I rest on them ... as the basis of my own faith" (letter to Adams, Aug. 22, 1813). Therefore, without using the actual words, Jefferson issued an authentic statement claiming Deism as his faith. http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/jefferson_deist.htm -----------------------------------------------------------
#179. To: Rhino (#174) A letter not a law. If you argue Constitutional Law based on Jefferson's personal life, then you could argue slavery is good. -----------------------------------------------------------
#180. To: Rhino (#169) The 14th amendment now forces all levels of government to follow the Bill of Rights. The 14th Amendment did not repeal the 10th Amendment.
The Federal government doesn't tell the states they can't teach religion, the US Constitution does. Feel free to point the words that do so. You are effectively arguing that the right to bears arms, means the Fed's can't tell you whether your state can tell you have guns or not have guns. Actually, that's what YOU are arguing. What is taught in local schools is none of the Feds business.
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