LETTERS 05/01/08
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Our founding fathers were geniuses. They knew the tyranny that nations wielded when they forced a particular belief on their citizens. Therefore they wrote that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
When Maj. Wellborn stated to the soldiers who were meeting as free thinkers that “they had disgraced those who had died for the Constitution,” he was precisely wrong. Those who have given their lives for the United States have done so that Pvt. Hall can hold meetings for free thinkers and atheists or for Buddhists or Lutherans or any other group.
Anne Asakura
Lee’s Summit
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