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Originally Posted by utabintarbo  Please re-read the First Amendment. It forbids establishment of a state religion. It says nothing of any impenetrable wall between religion and the state.
While I am not in any way in favor of mixing religion and government, let us not create non-existent clauses in the Constitution. |
Giving money to religious groups is a clear violation of the Amendment and the intent as is obvious from reading the writing of the various writers of the Constitution in the Federalist Papers and similar.
Furthermore, the Treaty of Tripoli (1796/1797) declared that "the Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".