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Originally Posted by tater
The bad precedent, however is that Congress opens with a prayer, which frankly it should not.
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Actually instead of setting a bad precedent I believe it illustrates exactly how the founders intended the first Amendment to be understood.
We have the freedom to worship. Nobody can force you but nobody can stop you either. The modern notion that the 1st Amendment bans all references to God in public functions is something that I doubt any of the founders would have agreed to.
In fact read what the US Senates chaplain, yes they have one, says about it.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/office/chaplain.htm
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Throughout the years, the United States Senate has honored the historic separation of Church and State, but not the separation of God and State. The first Senate, meeting in New York City on April 25, 1789, elected the Right Reverend Samuel Provost, the Episcopal Bishop of New York, as its first Chaplain. During the past two hundred and seven years, all sessions of the Senate have been opened with prayer, strongly affirming the Senate's faith in God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation.
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