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hildegaard28

(395 posts)

5. This is what the

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:04 PM

Nov 2023

Constitution says,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

No law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion sounds a lot like a separation of church and state to me. This idiot needs to look up what the word establishment means.

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