Yep, if we try to stop anyone from following another religious belief, that is being intolerant–and unchristian. That which is not of faith is sin, therefore, forcing people to behave a way in which they do not believe is to force them to sin. Not that we couldn’t do it, just that we shouldn’t do it.

AND

“if you do not like what our country stands for than LEAVE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!”

Everyone who is not in prison or on probation is free to leave the USA. It’s a shame, however, that some think anyone who disagrees with any aspect of America should only have the option of leaving. There are people of other religious beliefs whose ancestors were living here before the first European ever showed up. Why should they leave and where should they go?

By many current standards, the Founding Fathers were a bunch of enslaving (slave owners), adulterous, drunken revolutionaries. By their own words many of them were not what most would consider Christians. For that matter, within the group of folks calling ourselves Christians, are many who would exclude others (just consider Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons, Christian Scientists). I suspect by your standards, they would have to leave the country. Surely by some standards we would all have to leave.

You can say, The Pilgrims came for Christian purposes, but you have to admit if you are honest that others came to get rich (Jamestown, Virginia) or to escape the long arm of the law and religious intolerance back home (much of Georgia, some of my ancestors). Even the Pilgrims left a place of religious tolerance to go to a place where they could practice intolerance on other Christians like the Quakers, maybe even us Baptists!

Anyway, if people always had to leave the country unless their beliefs were exactly those of the founding fathers, all converts to Christianity in Israel would have had a hard time of it because it was not native to Israel or anywhere else at the time–either way back after the resurrection or even today.

David for making no laws establishing a state religion
or forbidding the free practice of religion
even by non Baptists

KUDOS TO YOU MY FRIEND….COULDN’T HAVE BEEN BETTER STATED! The way I see it is our country was founded on Christianity and therefore, if you do not like what our country stands for than LEAVE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Thank god for ppl like you who understand this whole thing.

You you seem to b e the only one here that understands that
it is not a teachers right to shove THEIR religion down any of
the children in schools throat.
It IS however, their job to teach them the three R’s and they
surely need to start doing a heck of a lot better on that.

“Father Satan, I call to you from the deepst parts of my heart, I praise your name with every breath of my body, I worship you with every fibre of my being. You shown me what true strength is. you have shown me what true love is. Out of the darkness you came to show, me the true light.
My master, my father and my friend what a great gift that is.
Hail to the King!”

You would be mad as hell, as would I. But given the view of some here, it would be constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of religious expression. There is no difference between that being shoved down the the throat of a christian or a christian prayer being shoved down the throat of a non-christian.

If anyone cares to say a prayer, they may drop their head and pray away no matter where they are and no one can stop them.

School officials on the other hand have a captive audience and shall not be allowed to impose their religious views on their students. Religion has its place and that place is not our public schools.

Is exactly what the ACLU was trying to do

Also the ” ACLU attacks on the First Amendment protections ” is backwards, the ACLU are protecting freedoms .

No one ever said you could not pray to yourself at school. If a group of people of the same religion want to go off to themselves and quietly pray, i’m sure no school or aclu has any issue with that.

its only when you force your religion on others that might be of different religions or non religious, that the problems arise.