Dear Editor:
J.G. McCormick in his April 14 letter of states,
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… there is not a word about
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Separation of Church and State
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in our Constitution. This is quite true!
Dear Editor:
J.G. McCormick in his April 14 letter of states, “… there is not a word about “Separation of Church and State” in our Constitution. This is quite true! The First Amendment simply and most elegantly says, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …”
I am your regular working guy next door or down the street – “Joe Six Pack.” I have read and reread the First, Second and Tenth amendments quite a number of times. If you take your time and read the first slowly, and simply, it says, “… shall make no law … respecting … the establishment … of religion…”.
That seems pretty simple to me, “Joe Six Pack.”
Mr. McCormick also stated, “… separation of church and state … is the figment of a depraved legal mind, who happened to be a Supreme Court Justice.” Ah, JG you failed me here! Least the citizens of Gilroy be lead down a dim, dark trail let it be known that the phrase separation of church and state was written in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Mass. in 1802. To wit, “… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that the act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” The letter was written by Thomas Jefferson, dated Jan. 1, 1802.
Citizens everywhere need to read the Declaration of Independence. The second paragraph states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, …”
Dan Myers, Gilroy
Submitted Sunday, April 18 to ed****@****ic.com
