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Re: No, It's the Liberal Secularists

Posted by American Pig on Sat Dec 25 13:19:30 2004, in response to Re: No, It's the Liberal Secularists, posted by Train Dude on Sat Dec 25 09:34:45 2004.

If all the framers wanted to do was ban a national church, they had plenty of opportunities to state exactly that in the First Amendment. In fact, an early draft of the First Amendment read in part, "The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief, nor shall any national religion be established...." This draft was rejected. Following extensive debate, the language found in the First Amendment today was settled on.