I saw a little crawl on (of all places) Fox News tonight about how the Texas Republican party has been urged by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League to stop calling the United States a "Christian Nation" in the party platform. Here's a quick story from Reuters about it.
Here's also a link to the U. S. Constitution on the subject; Article (Amendment) I
I understand that most (hey, if not all) of this country's founders had a "deep faith in God." I also understand that those same founders came from several different sects, and some of these sects persecuted one another.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I trace some of my ancestry to Ireland. It's almost obligatory to be proud of that ancestry (and I am proud of it), but I shudder to think about what life would have been like had my family not come here. (Actually, I have a strong suspicion they were deported, but that is a different story.)
...Let's just say I feel privileged to have grown up in a country in which the government allows freedom of religion...
(By the way ... I've prayed many times in public schools, and I've never been harassed for it.)
posted by David Aaron at 2:23 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home