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Tag: separation of church and stateBy Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Article 1, Section 4, of the Michigan Constitution states:
Every person shall be at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, or, against his consent, to contribute to the erection or support of any place of religious worship, or to pay tithes, taxes, or other rates for the support of any minister of the gospel or teacher of religion. No money shall be appropriated or drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any religious sect or society, theological or religious seminary; nor shall property belonging to the state be appropriated for any such purpose. The civil and political rights, privileges, and capacities of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his religious belief. This, of course, is a direct offshoot of Amendment 1 of the Constitution of the United States, and is fairly straightforward on its face. I'm a pretty big believer in the constitutional concept of keeping church and state separate. The faith I practice holds that both the church and state are both instituted and sanctioned by God, and that the proper relation between them is preserved only when each remains within its divinely assigned sphere of influence and uses its divinely entrusted means of operation. Thus, with regard to church and state, those who practice the same faith as me reject - among other things - any attempt by the state to restrict the free exercise of religion. So I was understandably distressed to hear from a friend of mine on the Kent County Committee on Religious Freedom of an attempt by one municipality in this county to dupe every religious organization within its borders into complying with federal, state, and local laws . . . including laws with which those religions may be compelled by conscience to disagree.
(6 comments, 2463 words in story) Full Story By conservmatt, Section News
The separation clause as defined by Thomas Jefferson specifically states that the American people's legislature "should make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Which, taken on the whole would seem to indicate that the legislature cannot make law(s) that establish(es) a religion. This raises the question: What is a religion?
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