“No, thats why we have laws.”
Please, point me to the law that strictly justifies the separation of Church and State. The problem is that you can never find those words in the US Constitution. In fact, even the “wall of separation between church and state” was originally an allusion to a wall around a church to keep the government from interfering in the free exercise of religion.
“The constitution says this, Your free to practice any Religion, but the Goverment will not take into account any Religion (state sponsered or otherwise) when making laws.”
Lets take a look at the Constitution and its original intent. The incontrovertible fact is that the Establishment Clause was never intended as a restriction on state governments. In fact, the majority of states did have state-established religions. Nor was this much less a restriction on state education (where this battle on “Under God” is mainly fought), where most schools were church run at the time.
Its purpose was to prevent the federal government from establishing a national religion or to interfere with any religions already established by the states so that people in the several states (and their communities) could exercise their religion free from federal coercion, unlike the England from which their ancestors fled. Before the American Revolution, five of the 13 states had government-sponsored churches supported by tax revenue. The 1st Amendment came as an answer to the their prayers.
The Framers did not mean to bar God from our public lives or even from all aspects of our federal government. Indeed, the day after the House passed the First Amendment, the House passed a resolution establishing a national day of prayer and thanksgiving (unless we also want to declare these actions of our Constitutional writer’s “unconstitutional”)
BTW: I did some looking up into this Newdow guy, and what a whackjob!
"It’s fairly easy to poke fun at the eccentric Newdow, who also, incidentally, wants to eradicate masculine and feminine pronouns from our dictionary. He would replace “he” and “she” with “re,” “his” and “hers” with “rees” and “him” and “her” with “erm.” “‘Come on, try it out,’ he says. ‘Re went to the store. It’s easy.’”
