Questions for Alan Sears.It always amazes me when people like Alan Sears  This article or section relies largely or entirely upon a .Please help [ improve this article] by introducing appropriate of additional sources. , head of the Religious Right's Alliance Defense Fund The Alliance Defense Fund ("ADF") is a conservative Christian non-profit organization with the stated goal of "defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. , cite "our nation's Founders" in support of their opposition to church-state separation ("The Alliance Defense Fund's Hidden Agenda," June 2004 Church & State). I wonder if they are ever asked their opinion of the views of such Founding Fathers as James Madison, who declared, "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind ..."? How do they respond to Thomas Jefferson's admonition Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them. to "Question with boldness even the existence of a God"? Could Madison, Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other Founding Fathers with similar views ever have advocated religious influence in matters of state? And then, of course, there is the Treaty of Tripoli The Treaty of Tripoli (the Treaty of Peace and Friendship) was a 1796 peace treaty between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary. (June 10, 1797), passed unanimously by the Senate and signed by President John Adams, which contained the unequivocal statement, "The government of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Please, Mr. Sears, spare us your distortions of history! Gerald Albert East Meadow, N.Y |
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