Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:52:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199708120652.AAA24368@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199708112215.PAA03422@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199708111618.KAA00620@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199708112215.PAA03422@hub.freebsd.org>
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Nate Williams wrote:
% Unfortunately, the 'separation of church/state' has become more of an
% issue of 'not allowing anything religious', instead of what I believe to
% be the original intent of 'not encouraging a specific religion'.
Jonathan M. Bresler writes:
> not allowing govt to favor one religion over another
> or favoring the religious over the agnostic.
The actual text of the First Amendment to the Constitution reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..."
What exactly this means varies widely from person to person. I
certainly don't read this "You may not open a town meeting with a
prayer", but the ACLU office in Salt Lake City does. Weird how wrong
they can be sometimes, isn't it? ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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