I've read it. The 'Separation of Church and State' crowd LOST the case. I am amazed at you level of dishonesty in citing it as supporting your side.
Oh, bullshit.
Wow, do you seriously lack the integrity to acknowledge that Everson lost? If so, then you have no business posting here. Without 'truth', words are meaningless.
But thanks for reading the case. What did you think of the case's description of the historical support for the wall of separation?
It was a history that pre-dated the formation of the Constitution by almost two centuries. And it ignored the more pertinent history - almost two centuries of Constitutional law where the First Amendment was taken as it was written.
"Congress shall make no law . . . " Clear. Concise. To the point.
Contrary to what you posted earlier, Amendment I secures no rights. Instead, it places a limit on the power of the federal legislature to take those rights away. The rights in question are inalienable - given to us by our Creator, whether you believe in Him or not.
But more to the point, the court decision (which you finally got around to reading for the first time) was decided in favor of the defendant. In other words, the Court found that it did not violate the Establishment Clause for the State of New Jersey to reimburse parents the cost of busing their kids to Catholic schools.
Both the majority and the minority in Everson agreed on the meaning of the Establishment Clause, although they differed on its application to the facts at hand.
They did the same thing with Dred Scot and Plessy. Both courts ignored the Constitution in rendering their decisions. Perhaps you would like to argue that segregation is Constitutional simply because the Supreme Court rendered it so? That's what you are doing here with the federal establishment of secular humanism.
But the bottom line is that the historical record shows that the Establishment Clause was a reaction not to religious piety but religious tyranny.
Yet it is you that is advocating using the courts to uphold religious tyranny in the form of secular humanism to be forced upon the rest of us. Cobb County, Georgia can't even put a note in a text book saying that evolution is just a theory without having the ACLU petitioning the courts to deny the county that right simply because it doesn't conform to their own government-sponsored religion.
Tyranny? You are the one advocating tyranny here. The rest of us just want to be left alone to choose our own local and state governments as we see fit, under the Constitution of the United States of America which grants no power to the federal government to force secular humanism on the rest of us.
