I can promise you the First

Amendment would have never passed if the state legislators had any inkling

that it would abrogate their powers to support or prefer one religion

over another as they saw fit. No one in the time of passage of that amendment

ever dreamed it would be twisted to exclude religion, God, prayer, and

moral choices from the public arena.

This argument about "separation

of church and state" has never been about insulting sensitive people.

It has always been about closing God out of public notice. It is about

preventing mention of Him or prayer to Him in order to deny his relevance

to everyday life. That is a personal choice by a select few that have

decided the rest of us need to live by their "rules."

Well, the Constitution of the

United States has been perverted long enough. It's time for the courts

to return to their original boundaries as defined in that same Constitution,

to interpret the law, not legislate from the bench. It's time to

interpret the Constitution and laws of this land by what is written. It's

time for justice to prevail, not pandering.

God has been rendered superfluous

long enough too. Think you that by taking discussion and reference to

Him out of the public eye that you can ease your own conscience; that

make Him go away? Think again. The more you run, the more your inability

to escape your own guilt will keep you awake at night.

Perhaps it is time to petition

the government for a redress of grievances: i.e., sue the socks off officials

who continue to prohibit the free exercise of religion.

Mary Barranti

Peachtree City, Ga.