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I play one on social media.
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Neither. I don't know to what amendment proposals they're referring, but they were likely unnecessary because the First Amendment to the United States Constitution already holds that "Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]." It's the Free Exercise Clause. Americans already get to pray in public school.The other headlines might as well just say "Be outraged!"although I'm not sure whether the prayer amendments were 'good' or 'bad' 🤔
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Oh, no doubt. I'd put money on there being many people today that are resentful that it didn't go anywhere, performative as it was.
This is one of those perennial performative measures (like prohibiting flag burning) that Republicans bring forward. It's not limited to Republicans, though. Moderate-conservative Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia pushed it probably half a dozen times from the '60s to the '90s.
It looks like this one (Senate Judiciary Resolution 73) was sponsored by Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) and favored by Reagan. As they tend to be, it was largely an attempt to end-around Abington Township v. Schempp (1963), in which the Supreme Court held that sanctioned or mandated prayer in public school is unconstitutional as it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"), the other half of the enshrinement of religious freedom in the Bill of Rights.
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Thanks again! Fascinating how long this kind of nonsense has been going on! This resolution 73, if I've found the right one, had a couple of Democrat cosponsors.
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No doubt. The higher you go, the less likely you are to observe the Constitution, it seems, but it also seems liberals are more likely to want a secular government. All those crazies who say the United States is a Christian nation founded on Christian viewpoint and who say those who don't hold Christian values aren't deserving of equal treatment and protection always seem to be conservatives in social view, but not necessarily when it comes to fiscal and foreign policy.
Edit: On the subject of fat **** Falwell...
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That was kind of the point but people like that prefer to accuse the rest of us of virtue signalling for supporting these companies, seemingly unable to realise that their cancel cultural behaviour tends to single them out as vice signallers.
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