Groups go After Faith....

Many groups began an "emergency summit" on January 15th to strategies how to "fight President Bush's faith-based initiatives". Roy Speckhardt, deputy director of the American Humanist Association (AHA) stated "we convened the meeting because of the unprecedented challenges, such as the election results.....", and they accuse conservatives as being fascist!

Challenge the elections results - sounds like they are actually the ones opposing the election and the will of the majority like a fascist, communist, or any other totalitarian state would do.

"There has never been any less respect in Washington for church-state separation, even though church-state separation is on of the things that made our country possible in the first place", Anne Gaylor, founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation said. The issue with this statement is ones interpretation of the first amendment, which was only meant to establish:

1. There would be no "Church of the United States." The government is prohibited from setting up a state religion, such as Britain had.
   
   
2. Expressly that government would not hinder the practice of religion, which is the exact opposite from how "groups" are using it today.

Thomas Jefferson's famous "wall of separation" letter was to a group of clergymen in Danbury, Connecticut, who feared the Congregationalists Church would become the state-sponsored religion. Jefferson assured them that the First Amendment guaranteed that there would be no establishment of any one denomination over another. Jefferson never intended for our governing bodies to be "separated" from Christianity and its principles. The "wall" was to protect the church from the state and meant as "one directional".

The purpose of the first amendment was to protect the Church, not to disestablish it. Read The Washington Times article here.