Quote From: rave0820Dear Dr. Phil,
Where does it all end? If you allow marriage between the same sexes, why not between 2 men and 1 woman or 2 women and a man. How about a man and his dog? I'm serious! If someone wants to live with their partner(s), "all power to them". But please don't call it marriage.
David S.
Bklyn, NY
PS People don't understand what the state being forbidden to establish a religion mean? Thomas Jefferson wrote about the separation of Church and State in a letter to a friend, but it is found nowhere in the U.S. Constitution.
Amendment 1, U.S Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
Does that not state that our country's government cannot chose one religion(and therefore, it's beliefs and practices)over another, for example, calling us a Christian nation would be wrong on any governmental level? We cannot have one state religion, as they do in other countries, thus all faiths are on an equal level. While the words "separation of church and state" are not spelled out, surely that is what was intended. That law is law, and faith is faith.
Or are you saying the amendment only means that no government entity can declare or establish us as a Christian country, or a Jewish country, or a Muslim country or etc?
