We offer for your consideration the United States Constitution.
A document much ballyhooed in its staunch support of the separation of Church and State. This principle is wheeled out at this time of year to ensure that no Nativity scenes
desecrate the lawns of court buildings, Christmas trees
will not be displayed to offend the eyes in our Universities or airports, and Christmas carols 
will not assault the ears in "holiday" assemblies in our public schools. The Constitution that I am familiar with makes no such assertion, and in fact does not even contain the word Church. Or Religion. In fact the only reference to religion is that the oath for public office does not need to be religious in nature. (Article VI - I am paraphrasing here).
Exhibit 2 the Bill of Rights. Some pertinent text does appear here. The founding fathers did feel a need to broach this subject and did it with the first part of the First Amendment and I quote "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". This is a very clear and profound statement that strongly asserts that your government is not going to tell you how or whom to worship. Now this has been stretched to include that any display that relates to Christmas on government related property can be construed to be an endorsement of a certain religion and therefore should be banned. Upon further inspection, however, there is more to this First Amendment. It continues on to say " or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". This is also pretty powerful language. It seems that banishing displays of decorations for Christmas, which is a Federal Holiday explicitly violates that principle.
A document much ballyhooed in its staunch support of the separation of Church and State. This principle is wheeled out at this time of year to ensure that no Nativity scenes
desecrate the lawns of court buildings, Christmas trees will not be displayed to offend the eyes in our Universities or airports, and Christmas carols will not assault the ears in "holiday" assemblies in our public schools. The Constitution that I am familiar with makes no such assertion, and in fact does not even contain the word Church. Or Religion. In fact the only reference to religion is that the oath for public office does not need to be religious in nature. (Article VI - I am paraphrasing here).Exhibit 2 the Bill of Rights. Some pertinent text does appear here. The founding fathers did feel a need to broach this subject and did it with the first part of the First Amendment and I quote "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". This is a very clear and profound statement that strongly asserts that your government is not going to tell you how or whom to worship. Now this has been stretched to include that any display that relates to Christmas on government related property can be construed to be an endorsement of a certain religion and therefore should be banned. Upon further inspection, however, there is more to this First Amendment. It continues on to say " or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". This is also pretty powerful language. It seems that banishing displays of decorations for Christmas, which is a Federal Holiday explicitly violates that principle.
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Amen, Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad! It's so great to see the truth - hopefully those that are spewing false doctrine will see the light.
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