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According to former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R. TX), the Columbine school shootings occurred "because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial mud." He has also stated that he was on a mission from God to promote a "biblical worldview" in American politics. (NYT, 12/17/02)
The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." So much for the Christian foundation of our country!
How many of our first six presidents were Christian?
How many of these founding fathers Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Washington - were Christian?
" ... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,..."
"Free exercise and enjoyment of religion without discrimination or preference are guaranteed..."
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion ... except for the sect that can win political power."
"A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some."
"Religious beliefs worthy of respect are the product of free and voluntary choice by the faithful. Government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
"The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people."
"The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths, and no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose can blind us to that fact ... the first part of the Commandments concerns the religious duties of believers: worshipping the Lord God alone, avoiding idolatry, not using the Lord's name in vain, and observing the Sabbath day."
"The government may acknowledge Christmas as a cultural phenomenon, but under the First Amendment it may not observe it as a Christian holy day by suggesting that people praise God for the birth of Jesus."
"... religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection."
"(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment."
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