[Rudey]

I'd send your brother to Guam and make him pick pineapples for me until he believed in the good lord and your mom dated me exclusively.

-Rudey

Originally posted by KSig RC
I can't answer your historical questions (and as with most quotations from the time, unless they were written in a publication by the supposed author, accuracy is never assured), but dude this post is so funny. Here:



a.) this doesn't represent "everything we've done for 220 years"

b.) the entire point of the constitution is to make religion free and accessible for everyone, making none of them illegal



This is great, just so funny - "If you don't believe in God, go back to your own country!" I hope this isn't the part you 'strongly agree' with, because I'm an American citizen, 5th generation Irish Protestant, and my little brother is an atheist. Boy, I'd hate to have to send him back to his nation - wherever the hell that would be. It's just nonsense, kiddo - rule your own life by God, rule the nation by law, and never the twain shall meet.

Also, the Supreme Court building, the Capital building, etc - these all weren't built on the day the Constitution was signed. In fact, DC wasn't even the capital of the nation then, IIRC. So these were decisions made post hoc, and they were poor ones. "Majority rule" may apply to lawmaking, but it does not apply to constitutional protections - and the Ten Commandments have no place in lawmaking, even if the majority of them have become, in turn, laws. They're great moral rules, but that sort of process is expressly forbidden.