{"id":133,"date":"2005-11-17T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-11-17T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T05:40:18","slug":"church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Church and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Quote:<br \/>\nAmendment # 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America<br \/>\n&#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof &#8221;<br \/>\nThat means that the state shall not establish an state sponsored religion, they shall respect ALL RELIGIONS and make them all feel welcome in the United States of America.<br \/>\nThis does not mean that things that are religious in nature have to be banned from all public places, and you have to be careful not to say anything that can be construed to be religious in any government setting.<br \/>\nIt means that if I wish to put the 10 commandments in the hall of the courthouse you can put the Koran next to it,and there is nothing that the government can do about it!<br \/>\nNow if I wish to have a Nativity scene on my lawn and someone else wishes to have a scene from the Mormon text.neither one of us should be offended Don&#8217;t all religions teach tolerance of others beliefs?<br \/>\nAs for the atheists they must be tolerant of my beliefs if they wish me to be tolerant of theirs, it&#8217;s real simple if you don&#8217;t like it look the other way till you pass it.<br \/>\nOK Let em fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Quote: Amendment # 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof &#8221; That means that the state shall not establish an state sponsored religion, they shall respect ALL RELIGIONS and make them all feel welcome in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}