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Originally Posted by bluedog
Even the "Supreme Court" of the United States issued the opinion that this nation was a "Christian Nation" in the fact that all states at the time continued reference to God and Christianity in their STATE CONSTITUTIONS. -- {Justice John Brewer, US Supreme Court, The Church of the Holy Trinity v. The United States, 1892} And the last time that I looked "We the people"/states are the government OR DO YOU as most liberals, flippantly dismiss the 10th article of our Bill of Rights....so by all means............
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Now, since I am not quite so pressed for time. Working man and all that...
"Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892)[1], was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States
regarding an employment contract between The Church of the Holy Trinity, New York and an English preacher.
Contracts to import labor were forbidden by the U.S. Code, and specifically by "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia." The court held that a minister was not a foreign laborer under the statute even though he was a foreigner.....
....This case is cited most often for its determination of how legislative intent can be determined. Justice Antonin Scalia has denounced the Holy Trinity decision as the "prototypical case" in which a judge follow the intent of the legislature rather than the text of the statute, and thus as being in opposition to his judicial philosophy of textualism....."
Holy Trinity Church v. United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And here is a complete copy of the entirety of that court case findings...
Holy Trinity Church v. U.S. (1892)
Feel free to point out where SCOTUS said anything about your God being in State Constitutions.
The Revisionist Junk History you people spew never fails to amaze me.