Re: Boy in a Santa suit asked to quit dance

From: Geoff (gebobs_at_yahoo.nospam.com)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:42:59 GMT

"night" <ohs@sorry.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.26.03.35.19.653791@sorry.net...
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:09:49 +0000, mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:50:54 -0500, johnebravo836
>> <johnebravo836@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>it may not appear
>>>in the Constitution itself, but it's in numerous US Supreme Court
>>>decisions interpreting the Constitution, and the USSC traced it to
>>
>> Our Declaration of Independence says "endowed by our creator" and we
>> have "In God We Trust" on our currency.
>
> In God We Trust started to appear on US coins sometime between
> 1900-1910. In the 1950's, it became mandatory for the phrase to appear on
> all US currency.

And the Declaration is not in any way a legal document. It was written
by Thomas Jefferson - who along with Madison, Franklin, Washington,
Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen - was a Deist. Deists believe in a creator,
but one that is unknowable and not intimately involved in creation.

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