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bookbakery discovered 45 months ago- "AgapePress) - A conservative history professor hopes his new book will help to educate Americans about the so-called separation of church and state. He insists that, in spite of frequent wrong interpretations of the establishment clause, the founding f
- trejrco rated 45 months ago
- "First Amendment Was Meant to Protect Religion, Historian Says"
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- Inertial-Mass rated 45 months ago
- From the page: "Wood says America's founding fathers wanted the First Amendment to prevent the federal establishment of a particular religion or church, meaning they wanted the government "not to impose a single national religion that would get taxpayer support and have special privileges." These patriots intent, he explains, was for the states and local communities to be places where people were free to do as they wished with regard to church and state issues. According to the history expert, nothing in the First Amendment would have been construed by any of the constitutional framers as suggesting that federal judges had authority to issue rulings in religious matters. "There is no interpretation," he insists, "that would have been understood by any of the framers of that amendment [to allow] the federal government to tell a school system whether it can have prayer or not, or whether it can mention God or not, or whether it can have a Nativity scene in front of [its schools] or not." The First Amendment was intended to protect Christianity from government, Wood says, and not government from Christianity. His hope, he says, is that his new Politically Incorrect Guide to American History can help to set the record straight."
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