PC crybabies

[cboy]

Thanks Marine, that'll do for my post too. I was just going to say something lame about the separation of church and state

So I suppose we should ban Christians from having jobs because they may offend non-Christian workers, or maybe ban them from speaking their mind because they may offend members of other religions with their words. Heck, why not just kill them all because they may offend atheists by breathing the same air. Does "separation of church and state" allow that (doesn't, but since when has that stopped the PC crowd from twisting the words of the Constitution)?

Wow. I've heard alot of guff from conservatives. But Wow. I'm offended just by that remark.

Ah yes, silly me for forgetting; simple minds require explicit details. What makes other religions so special that Christians, who have just as much of a right to free speech and free expression as anyone else, must be silenced for other religions' comfort? What makes them so special that their freedom of expression comes at the expense of Christians' freedom of experssion?

which cboy would've probably countered with, "But it says 'In God we trust' on all the money."

Actually, I'll counter it with this: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion: or of prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It's the First Amendment.

The term "separation of Church and State" is nowhere in the Founding Father's discussion of the First Amendment (see the Congressional Records from June 7 to September 25, 1789). The term originated from two different sources: the Danbury Letter, a private letter (written eleven years after the ratification of the First Amendment) in which Thomas Jefferson used the term "A wall of separation between church and state" to assure the Danbury Baptists that the federal government would not esablish a federally recognized "state" religion, and the case of Everson v. Board of Education, where the term was cited from the Danbury Letter rather than the actual text of the First Amendment (which, for anyone with eyes, clearly forbids the government and the courts from suppressing the expression of religion.)

And finally, what exactly does a Santa hat have to do with Jesus Christ? Santa is in no way connected with religion.