The Freedom From Religion Foundation is erecting a billboard that features a Ronald Reagan quote stressing the importance of separation of church and state ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month.
“We establish no religion in this country … Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” the billboard will read, Raw Story reported.
Reagan made the remarks in a speech on Oct. 26, 1984, to Temple Hillel leaders in Valley Stream, New York:
“Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism,” the late conservative said. “We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
“The RNC needs to be reminded that our nation is predicated on a godless and entirely secular Constitution,” foundation Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said in a statement. “The fate of our Establishment Clause hangs in the balance of the election. We’re not voting for the next president — we’re voting for the next Supreme Court justice.”
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4 comments:
Yeah we are voting for the next Supreme Court Justice and we sure as hell don't want it to be Obama!!
They have a good point.
AND we don't establish Atheism, either! Don't take it down that road.
@5:34
Establishing Atheism? What would that be exactly?
Atheism is simply rejecting the claims of theists, no more no less.
It would be like calling someone who doesn't collect stamps a "non-stampcollector" and then claiming we are establishing "non-stampcollection". It's nonsensical.
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