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Re: ''Under God'' removed from invocation |
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Posted by AlM on Wed Jan 23 11:35:22 2013, in response to Re: ''Under God'' removed from invocation, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Jan 23 11:17:21 2013. Why are we having benedictions and invocations at the presidential inauguration and other public, government functions, in the first place?Tradition, I suppose. I guess my feeling is that if it's individual speech of a participant at a public event (even if the participant happens to be a government official) it doesn't get into the realm of establishment of a religion. On the other hand, if it's a policy or a monument instituted by government that has a religious oritentation, then it's permanent or semi-permanent and starts to look very much like establishment. |
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