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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:41:41 -0600, "Fiddleaway"
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rw wrote
How do you figure?

Well ... I was kinda bein cutsie (hence the smiley) ... but the clause
itself can be viewed as a "law respecting an establishment of religion"

No, it can't. "Congress" didn't "make" the Bill of Rights in the sense
contemplated by the Amendment, it proposed it to the legislatures of the
States. But in any case, the Bill of Rights (the 1st ten amendments)
is/are not law(s), it/they is/are a bar against Federal (and now, as
decided by the SCOTUS, State and local) action that the law promulgated
must follow, not laws made that citizens must follow.

And a close study of what the SC has popped as prohibited by the 1st
will show that, for the most part, they've been right, but it's not
their job to consult with a State's legislature while they draft law, it
is, generally speaking, their job to tell them when they've done it
improperly.

Good God, you are dim.

Wolfgang
who would bet a shiny new nickel that the boy gets a flaming bag of **** on
his porch every day.......with mind numbingly predictable results.