A follow up on my August blog on the separation of Church and State
The objective of First Amendment is not about controlling religion. Proof of this would be in the 1844 U. S. Supreme Court case of Vidal v. Girard's Executors. In the unanimous decision Justice Joseph Story wrote in his commentary about the original meaning of the First Amendment,
"The real object of the First Amendment was not to much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects (denominations) and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government."
If we would have taught the true history of America in our schools this debate of the Muslims shoving their Mosque in our face would not be taking place. The First Amendment was not intended to give freedoms to America's enemies.
What would have happened 50 years ago to an American that started preaching communism? He would have been put in prison, or worse, for treason.
Because of our lack of education in the true history of this country we have this false belief that the First Amendment protects our enemies in their quest to take over America. Communism and Socialism are America's enemies as is the Muslim religion.
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