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States' Liberty Party E-BookMorality & the ConstitutionChapter 6 – Religion in the early States
Of the 13 original states in the union, as many as 9 had some form of a State religion. This became impractical over time, because there were various differing religions in each of the states. By 1833, every state had eliminated the state religions apparently without coaxing by Washington. Religion continued to be intertwined with the government, and many states had religious education programs in the public schools, and this continued until the Supreme Court’s 1948 McCollum prohibition. There may be some irony in the idea that a new amendment intending to end slavery would become the vehicle for prohibiting religion, because religion had been the thrust for the ending of slavery. Religious values of fairness and equality for all, thus, became the supposed standard for the unilateral prohibition of religion in the states, in regard to public institutions. Out of this came non-recognition of any rights for an unborn child until the very second it is born. A mere technicality in the Constitution, an unborn child is not once referred to as a person, eliminated a Fourteenth Amendment protection of rights to the unborn at any stage of development, similarly as were Negro slaves denied the rights of a person. This time, the Supreme Court, and perhaps other factors, had so weakened religion that its firm opposing voice was drowned out or mocked. The Court’s action might be construed as having effectively created a uniform national religion. |
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