John P.

1. Those were not my words They are a 1963 Supreme Court ruling against mandatory school prayers; and a concuring opinion by two Justices of that court.

2. Those words were saying exactly what your point is about respecting all religions without favour, hostility and repression of people with no faith or different faiths.

3. The Constitution made it very clear that the Founding fathers did not want a country divided by religious strife, and tried very hard to enshrine that in the Constitution. To say that the USA was founded by Deists and not Christians is completely fallacious. A few were, most were definately not.

4. Using the words of the people who drafted and signed the constitution is the only logical way of interpreting their intent. In every regard I have tried to follow the rule of evidence, and only used original documented quotes, not the unconfirmed and bogus ones that are circulating around on this issue.

5. I am a Christian, I was raised a Christian and had I been raised a Jew I would be a Jew. Had I been raised a Moslem I would indeed be a Moslem. Therefore Like Winston Churchill, I am "not a pillar of the Church but more of a flying buttress--I support it from the outside."

(for those of you who love history 9th April 1963 JFK made Sir Winston S. Churchill an honorary US citizen)

Yours, Aye. Dave