Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com) [LWN.net]

Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 28, 2003 15:47 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com) by dbhost
Parent article: Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

<offtopic>IANAL, but I believe the standard reply to your challenge about the church/state separation issue would be that the subsequent court decisions "interpret" the Constitution by creating legal precedent, and thereby sort of change its current meaning. Not exactly the way the people who wrote it probably intended, but that's the state of the union... :-( In addition, it may not be explicit in the Constitution, but the leaders of the Revolution very plainly indicated in their other writings that they did not want a state church...they'd had too much experience with such a situation back in the countries they came from. Their point, however, was not to make a churchless state--where discouraging religion entirely was the rule--but to make the playing field level so no one particular group was persecuted as happened all the time to minority groups in countries with the aforementioned state churches.</offtopic>

(Log in to post comments)

Big Blue assuages customers about SCO (News.com)

Posted Jul 28, 2003 18:50 UTC (Mon) by dbhost (guest, #3461) [Link]

I couldn't agree to a greater extent. The issue isn't really OT though. It is the interperatation of the intent of the framers and legislators that has so horribly steered our legal system into the current state of perversion that we suffer through. My point was not that I advocate or oppose a church / state union, but rather that the intent and word of the framers and legislators have been twisted into a horrible thing by societal predators wearing suits. I make no secret of my standing on issues of faith, and where I believe the state should be in relation to the church. The first ammendment, guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM. And last time I checked, Paganism and Atheism were both considered forms of Religion. (Much of modern environmental thought is barely disguised Pagan belief).

What I am advocating here, and pretty much elsewhere is a truly impartial judiciary that will look at the evidence, and weigh it against the law, from the Constitution on down, and render a ruling based on the facts. I have no faith that can happen in our current climate.