Missouri declares Christianity its official religion.

[Will Linden]

   That is how it looks to me.

    I frequently see alarmists and/or ideologues failing to make any 
distinction between "whereas" boilerplate and operative legislation. One 
such was a lefty who claimed that the Congressional resolution declaring 
Captive Nations Week was "a resolution partitioning the Soviet Union" 
because the boilerplate mentioned states swallowed by the USSR. Another was 
an apparent anti-semite who cited a resolution "honoring" the Lubavitcher 
Rebbe, and claiming that because the boilerplate mentioned the Noachian 
Law, this was legislation imposing the NL as the law of the land.

     The language here is so windy it is unclear WHAT they think they are 
saying; but when we look at the operative portion....  uh, there isn't one, 
just a paragraph saying public prayer is a Good Thing.



At 07:25 PM 3/3/06 -0500, you wrote:

>is this much different from Reagan's [in]famous proclamation that we are 
>Christian country?  The resolution seems not to be any sort of law with 
>impact -- just some hortatory language about how school-sponsored prayer 
>and public-sponsored creches should be allowed.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: Winston Calvert 
>>><<mailto:winstoncalvert at sbcglobal.net>winstoncalvert at sbcglobal.net>
>>>Reply-To: <mailto:w at wcalvert.com>w at wcalvert.com,        Law & Religion 
>>>issues for Law Academics 
>>><<mailto:religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
>>>To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics 
>>><<mailto:religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
>>>Subject: RE: Missouri declares Christianity its official religion. Date: 
>>>Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:39:35 -0800 (PST)
>>>
>>>Here is the text of the resolution:
>>>Assembly, Second Regular Session, the Senate
>>>concurring therein, that we stand with the majority of
>>>our constituents and exercise the common sense that
>>>voluntary prayer in public schools and religious
>>>displays on public property are not a coalition of
>>>church and state, but rather the justified recognition
>>>of the positive role that Christianity has played in
>>>this great nation of ours, the United States of
>>>America.
>
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