Religious conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church and state.
Religious conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church and state.
I hate these people just so very much. They aren’t just happy with keeping their stuff in their houses of worship and their homes and inflicting it on their own children; they want everyone else to join in on their little book club, with the power of the State enforcing this.
Fuck them. This is a secular nation - not one mention of the character of Jesus in the Constitution.
Even better, a big chunk of the founders put their name to this treaty paragraph:
Treat of Tripoli, yes?
I understand what they were doing there when it comes to diplomacy and pointing out the facts about our country’s founding, but I do wonder if they knew about the “People of the Book” thing within Islam.
Yes, the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli, English version
I don’t think that much of Congress knew much of anything about Islam, though a few had in fact read a translation of the Koran