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I\u2019m beginning to sympathize with the likes of Angela Hildenbrand<\/a>.\u00a0 Originally, it was just this type of public religious expressions that I imagined the Court wanted to discourage, because the First Amendment does make it pretty clear that government shouldn\u2019t be sponsoring this religion over that one.\u00a0 Of course the First Amendment applies to federal government, but we all know how that has evolved over the centuries.\u00a0 So it\u2019s enough to say that someone compelled to be in a government setting shouldn\u2019t be forced to endure the evangelizing desires of a religious advocate.\u00a0 Fine.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you would have to be either blind, stupid, both, or part of the agenda to miss that many are taking the SCOTUS spin on the First Amendment and using it to further their own belief systems at the expense of the right to promote others.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s some suggesting that public officials with traditional Christian beliefs shouldn\u2019t run for public office, or the likes of Barry Lynn proudly stating that a religion\u2019s relationship with public funding is directly related to its beliefs and doctrines, or simply the radical secularists attempting to exploit this constitutional interpretation in order to censor and prohibit the free exercise of religion in America, it\u2019s clear that the SCOTUS spin is now being exploited in order to violate the very essence of what the Founding Fathers wanted in the first place. <\/p>\n

So on one hand, I can see that this case, especially with the support of the Liberty Institute, would seem to violate the heart of the First Amendment by any fair reading of it.\u00a0 Yet I can also see that others who continue to exploit \u2018Seperation of Church and State\u2019 for their own interests are no less in violation of the heart of the First Amendment, and in some cases are in even more flagrant violation of the Founding Fathers\u2019 intentions than any evangelist could hope to be.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"