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Old 12-11-2008, 09:24 AM
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You're kidding, right, Hemi? Sometimes I have trouble discerning people's humorous remarks. :-)

You do know there's no such amendment - you do know where that phrase comes from? A letter written by Thomas Jefferson - even a recent Circuit Court of Appeals decision called that phrase ("separation of church and state") a "tired extra-constitutional construct" that really needs to be gone.

6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals:
“The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.”

from the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER — In an astounding return to judicial interpretation of the actual text of the United States Constitution, a unanimous panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Tuesday issued an historic decision declaring that “the First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.”

In upholding a Kentucky county’s right to display the Ten Commandments, the panel called the American Civil Liberties Union’s repeated claims to the contrary “extra-constitutional” and “tiresome." 6th Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in the unanimous decision: “The ACLU makes repeated reference to the ’separation of church and state.’ This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation’s history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion.”

The words “separation of church and state” do not appear in the U.S. Constitution, though according to polls, a majority of Americans have been misled to believe that they do... For background information, see: Separation of church and state in the United States: Information from Answers.com

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