Politics is the new Religion

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2020, 04:07 AM

The good folks in Rhode Island, having been driven out of Europe by religious persecution, demanded and got added to the Constitution by way of the bill of rights, a written guaranty there would be no state religion. It didn't help because individual states made their own rules/laws. In some states you couldn't hold public office or government employment unless you were a specified religion. It wasn't even by custom, a wink and a nod, it was actually written into state laws.

10-06-2020, 04:07 AM	#39
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The good folks in Rhode Island, having been driven out of Europe by religious persecution, demanded and got added to the Constitution by way of the bill of rights, a written guaranty there would be no state religion. It didn't help because individual states made their own rules/laws. In some states you couldn't hold public office or government employment unless you were a specified religion. It wasn't even by custom, a wink and a nod, it was actually written into state laws. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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