The email included this text: "That sure doesn't sound like the separation of church and state guaranteed in the Constitution to us"
At this point, I am going to sit in a corner and cry. Because, as I pointed out in a previous post, The Constitution does not contain the phrase, or even the idea of "Separation of Church and State". The phrase comes from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury baptists, declaring that "their legislature should make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." So according to Jefferson, if the Congress wants to pray before every session, then they have the right to freely exercise their religion.
At this point, we have two possibilities. A) The ACLU hasn't actually read the Constitution, so they don't know that the phrase "Separation of church and state" doesn't appear in it; [which I find hard to believe, given the fact that a large portion of the ACLU's work is in the courts, meaning that it's employees should have law degrees; and I think that they still require you to read the Constitution in law school] or B) The ACLU is lying to give credibility to their words. I quite honestly don't know which one is scarier. Either they are ignorant, or they are deceptive; and for an organization as powerful as the ACLU, that's a frightening proposition.
So which is it? Are they ignorant, or deceptive?
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