I am sick and tired of anti-religious extremists "preaching" their agenda to the 80 percent or more of the U.S. population who practice some type of religious belief. And it angers me that they and the American Civil Liberties Union do this under the guise of a "separation of church and state" doctrine in the U.S. Constitution. I have news for them, there is no such clause in our Constitution.
The First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof?" So where do these irreverent atheists and their legal supporters get the idea that a cross erected on government land in San Diego is "unconstitutional?" Or a picture of Jesus drawn by a student and placed on a classroom wall must be removed? And now the Clemson football team is being sued and accused of "Christian worship?" Where does this all end?
The U.S. Constitution does not prevent government agencies or public schools from displaying religious symbols. The Constitution does not prevent schools from offering prayer in the classroom. And the Constitution certainly does not prevent cross-shaped headstones from being placed in cemeteries in honor of the religious beliefs of the deceased. What it does say is, the government cannot make laws establishing or prohibiting religion.
I am not affiliated with any specific religion so before anyone thinks this article is coming from a religious fanatic, you would be wrong. No one is trying to turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. The American Civil Liberties Union and anti-religious groups are browbeating and creating a cultural war under the false pretense of a phrase that doesn't exist. Religion is a freedom and should be kept that way.