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<DIV>I do not have a problem with any of these quotes and nether do a lot
of conservatives. On the flip side some liberals want to force people to finance
thing that go against their religious beliefs. Not exactly separation of church
and state.</DIV>
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style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">In honor of our
presidents and our nation's founding, here are 35 quotes from the Founding
Fathers that prove they did NOT found a 'Christian' nation. Painting of the
Founding Fathers by Junius Brutus Steams, 1856.</SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The separation of church and state is
one of the cornerstones of America's foundation. Conservative Christian
fundamentalists have sought to crush this cornerstone in the hopes of
establishing Christianity as the state religion, an action that would threaten
the rest of the foundation that makes up the Constitution. These conservatives
contend that the Founding Fathers dreamed of making America a Christian state
at the expense of those who practice other religions or none at
all.</SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">So here are 35 quotes from the Founding
Fathers. Perhaps your first thoughts are the first four Presidents and maybe
Benjamin Franklin, but there were many other Founding Fathers. Many were
signers of the US Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. They were
lawyers, judges, soldiers, merchants, farmers, and some were even clergy. And
the great majority of them signed the Constitution knowing that matters of
government and matters of religion would be separate.</SPAN></DIV>
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"If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so
administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will
be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish
effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every
species of religious persecution."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia,
May 1789</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
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"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are
caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most
inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that
the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at
least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should
never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger
the peace of society."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792<BR
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style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">3.</STRONG>
"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and
reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition… In this
enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a
man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor
deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are
known in the United States."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in
Baltimore, January 27, 1793</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of
governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now
sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture,
hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their
history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is
at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may
hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any
persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any
degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or
houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be
acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason
and the senses."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~John
Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of
America" 1787-1788</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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"The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded
on the Christian religion."<BR
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Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John
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"Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural
authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and
which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of
the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United
States of America" (1787-88)</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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"We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions
shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power
we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the
state of society."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father</EM>John Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people
which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus
building a wall of separation between church and state."<BR
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style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut,
1802</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">9.</STRONG>
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He
is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for
protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Founding
Father Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford,
1814</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be
one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded
fear."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM>Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10,
1787</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
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"I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal
ascendancy of one sect over another."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM>Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26,
1799</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">12.</STRONG>
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people
maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance
of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves
for their own purposes."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~</EM>Founding
Father </EM>Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6,
1813</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">13.</STRONG>
"Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every
person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">State churches that use government
power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths
undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to
make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within
religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state,"
therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. We have solved … the
great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with
order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the
quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess
freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his
own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM>Thomas Jefferson: in a speech to the Virginia Baptists,
1808</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">14.</STRONG>
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM>Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10,
1814,</EM></SPAN></DIV>
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style="WIDTH: auto; FLOAT: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">15.</STRONG>
"The civil government functions with complete success by the total
separation of the Church from the State."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432, quoted from Gene
Garman, "Essays In Addition to America's Real
Religion"</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">16.</STRONG>
"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one
has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater
purity, the less they are mixed together."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10,
1822</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">17.</STRONG>
"Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between
ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>James Madison, letter, 1822</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">18.</STRONG>
"Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the
Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by
Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in
their short history."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>James Madison; Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations,
Ecclesiastical<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Endowments</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">19</STRONG>.
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate
into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.
Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people
themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full
force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence
among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4,
1817</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="QUOTES: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: italic; PADDING-TOP: 0px; MARGIN: 10px 20px 10px 30px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 3px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">
<H2
style="WIDTH: auto; FLOAT: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">20.</STRONG>
"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it
does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that
its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it's a
sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9,
1780</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">21.</STRONG>
"Manufacturers, who listening to the powerful invitations of a better price
for their fabrics, or their labor, of greater cheapness of provisions and raw
materials, of an exemption from the chief part of the taxes burdens and
restraints, which they endure in the old world, of greater personal
independence and consequence, under the operation of a more equal government,
and of what is far more precious than mere religious toleration-a perfect
equality of religious privileges; would probably flock from Europe to the
United States to pursue their own trades or professions, if they were once
made sensible of the advantages they would enjoy, and were inspired with an
assurance of encouragement and employment, will, with difficulty, be induced
to transplant themselves, with a view to becoming cultivators of the land."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Alexander Hamilton: Report on the Subject of
Manufacturers December 5,<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">1791</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">22</STRONG>.
"In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof
is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by
precept and example inculcated on mankind."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Samuel
Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771)</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">23.</STRONG>
"That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of
discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or
violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of
religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual
duty of all to practice Christian forebearance, love, and charity towards each
other."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>George Mason, Virginia Bill of Rights,
1776</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">24.</STRONG>
"It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be
compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their
consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no
benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as
civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this
commonwealth."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights,
1776</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">25.</STRONG>
"A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to
any office or public trust under the United States. I am a friend to a variety
of sects, because they keep one another in order. How many different sects are
we composed of throughout the United States? How many different sects will be
in congress? We cannot enumerate the sects that may be in congress. And there
are so many now in the United States that they will prevent the establishment
of any one sect in prejudice to the rest, and will forever oppose all attempts
to infringe religious liberty. If such an attempt be made, will not the alarm
be sounded throughout America? If congress be as wicked as we are foretold
they will, they would not run the risk of exciting the resentment of all, or
most of the religious sects in America."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Edmund Randolph, address to the Virginia Ratifying
Convention, June<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">10,
1788</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">26.</STRONG>
"I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church - an equality in the teacher of
Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments - but if
the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government"<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Rufus King, Rufus King: American Federalist, pp.
56-57</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">27.</STRONG>
A general toleration of Religion appears to me the best means of peopling our
country… The free exercise of religion hath stocked the Northern part of the
continent with inhabitants; and altho' Europe hath in great measure adopted a
more moderate policy, yet the profession of Protestantism is extremely
inconvenient in many places there. A Calvinist, a Lutheran, or Quaker, who
hath felt these inconveniences in Europe, sails not to Virginia, where they
are felt perhaps in a (greater degree)."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Patrick
Henry, observing that immigrants flock to places where there is no established
religion, Religious Tolerance, 1766</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
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<H2
style="WIDTH: auto; FLOAT: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">28.</STRONG>
"No religious doctrine shall be established by law."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Elbridge Gerry, Annals of Congress
1:729-731</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">29.</STRONG>
"Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe
that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect,
and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take
place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the
rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have
added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9
January 1788</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">30.</STRONG>
"Some very worthy persons, who have not had great advantages for information,
have objected against that clause in the constitution which provides, that no
religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or
public trust under the United States. They have been afraid that this clause
is unfavorable to religion. But my countrymen, the sole purpose and effect of
it is to exclude persecution, and to secure to you the important right of
religious<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">liberty.
We are almost the only people in the world, who have a full enjoyment of this
important right of human nature. In our country every man has a right to
worship God in that way which is most agreeable to his conscience. If he be a
good and peaceable person he is liable to no penalties or incapacities on
account of his religious sentiments; or in other words, he is not subject to
persecution. But in other parts of the world, it has been, and still is, far
different. Systems of religious error have been adopted, in times of
ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates,
to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish, and
the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in
error, but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe
persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout
Europe."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Oliver Ellsworth, Philip B Kurland and Ralph Lerner
(eds.), The Founder's Constitution, University of Chicago Press, 1987, Vol. 4,
p.<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">638</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">31.</STRONG>
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the
strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the
law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~Thomas
Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">32.</STRONG>
"God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in
their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is
called civil, the other ecclesiastical government."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious
Liberty, 1773</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">33.</STRONG>
"Congress has no power to make any religious establishments."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Roger Sherman, Congress, August 19,
1789</EM></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">34.</STRONG>
"The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but
they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest
citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil
emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of
the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the
business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any
religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM>Noah Webster, calling for no religious tests to serve in public
office, Sketches of American Policy, 1785</SPAN></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="QUOTES: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: italic; PADDING-TOP: 0px; MARGIN: 10px 20px 10px 30px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 3px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">
<H2
style="WIDTH: auto; FLOAT: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><STRONG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-STYLE: normal; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">35.</STRONG>
"The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of
religion."<BR
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">~<EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><EM
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Founding
Father </EM></EM></EM>Charles Pinckney, Constitutional Convention,
1787</EM></SPAN></FONT></H2></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">These are hardly the words of men who
allegedly believed that America should be a Christian nation governed by the
Bible as conservatives constantly claim. On the contrary, the great majority
of the Founders believed strongly in separation of church and state. So keep
in mind that this country has survived for over two centuries under the
principle of separation and it is only now when conservatives are attempting
to destroy that very cornerstone that we find America becoming ever more
divided and more politically charged than ever before. If this right-wing
faction has their way, America as we know it will cease to exist and the
freedoms we have enjoyed because of the Constitution will erode.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The Founding Fathers had a vision of
this nation and trusted that the people would protect that vision and improve
upon it. Now is not the time to fail them. Because the day the people fail, so
does America.</SPAN></DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants
on)</SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000000>http://www.MoscowCares.com</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Tom Hansen</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>Moscow, Idaho</SPAN></DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>- John Lennon</SPAN></DIV>
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