Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Conservatives and Separation of Church and State

I always wanted to ask my conservative friends, well those who disagree that there is a separation of church and state, if they would prefer a Bill of Rights which has language such as the following:
All people shall be secured in the natural right to worship ALMIGHTY GOD, according to the dictates of their own consciences.

No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.

No preference shall be given, by law, to any creed, religious society, or mode of worship; and no person shall be compelled to attend, erect, or support, any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, against his consent.

No religious test shall be required, as a qualification for any office of trust or profit.

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, for the benefit of any religious or theological institution.

No person shall be rendered incompetent as a witness, in consequence of his opinions on matters of religion.

Actually, I got a few more questions than that one. Here they are:

  1. Do you not agree that written like this, there is a separation of church and state?
  2. If not, why not?
  3. Would you continue to live under a government which expressed religious rights in this language?

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