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Letter: Use common sense for 'separation' anxiety

October 24, 2007

Dear Editor,

When I was raising my children and contemplated a decision I had to make relative to their upbringing, I often made the decision based on "what would my father have done?" Because he died before my children were grown, I couldn't ask him for advice, so I had to resort to the time tested method of determining what he would do based on what he told or allowed me to do or prohibited me from doing.

When I hear the liberal politicians and the ACLU lawyers argue that we can't determine original intent of the framers of the Constitution as it relates to issues such as "separation of church and state," the wording of which is not found in that document, I realize the lack of common sense in those individuals we have elected to establish law, and also some of those who use the law in the pursuit of justice.

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If they are truly interested in answering the question, "What would the Founding Fathers have done?", they need look no further than the historical record of what they sanctioned or tolerated. There was no separation of church and state, church being a generic term for religion. The schools taught religious principles based on biblical precepts, but they didn't teach doctrine which would be based on denominational interpretation of biblical precepts.

Further proof of this can be found in the traditions adhered to by the Congress and the Supreme Court in their invocation of God in their daily opening ceremonies, and by the inscriptions chiseled in stone on many of the government buildings in Washington D.C., and these traditions and inscriptions predate the 1950s.

Those who want to deny the correlation of secular law and biblical law are inviting confusion, rebellion and lawlessness. Does this sound like a diagnosis of the affliction in society today? If so, the remedy should be apparent, even to those in the padded halls of Congress and who have insulated themselves from reality.

J B Waskom

Stanford

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