Thread: McCain criticized for calling U.S. 'Christian nation'
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Old 10-12-2007, 09:30 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sgtdmski View Post
As liberals like to claim the SCOTUS determines what the Constitution says. The Supreme Court in Holy Trinity recognized the unoffical declarations stating that this country was a Christian nation. By recognizing this claim, the SCOTUS has declared that we are a Christian Nation. Since it the responsibility of SCOTUS to tell us poor folks what the Constitution and the Law of the Land mean, then unfortunately this is the law of the land.

Despite the word unofficial, the Court recognized the country as a Christian nation, please don't try to back track now. And it would seem again that McCain was right both grammatically and constitutionally.

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The case that you are citing is about a church's right to hire a minister from another country. Later the opinion specifically states that this right also extends to Jewish synagogues also. The implication -- to any thinking person -- is that it extends to any religious congregation.

Play your sarcastic little games if you want. It doesn't change the fact that we are not Constitutionally a Christian country.

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Suppose, in the congress that passed this act, some member had offered a bill which in terms declared that, if any Roman Catholic church in this country should contract with Cardinal Manning to come to this country, and enter into its service as pastor and priest, or any Episcopal church should enter into a like contract with Canon Farrar, or any Baptist church should make similar arrangements with Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, or any Jewish synagogue with some eminent rabbi, such contract should be adjudged unlawful and void, and the church making it be subject to prosecution and punishment. Can it be believed that it would have received a minute of approving thought or a single vote? Yet it is contended that such was, in effect, the meaning of this statute. The construction invoked cannot be accepted as correct. It is a case where there was presented a definite evil, in view of which the legislature used general terms with the purpose of reaching all phases of that evil; and thereafter, unexpectedly, it is developed that the general language thus employed is broad enough to reach cases and acts which the whole history and life of the country affirm could not have been intentionally legislated against.

Church of Holy Trinity v. United States - vLex
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