bighart
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Sat Oct-02-10 09:05 PM
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Federal funds used to pay for missionaries, church buildings and the salary of a preist. |
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Very real and documented in federal records. Who did it? Thomas Jefferson. "And whereas, the greater part of the Tribe have been baptized and received into the Catholic church, to which they are much attached, the United States will give annually for seven years on hundred dollars towards the support of a priest of that religion ... and ... three hundred dollars to assist the said Tribe in the errection of a church."" - United States Supreme Court, Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 US 38 at 103, William H. Rehnquist, dissenting; "The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America", Richard Peters, editor, (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846), Vol. VII, p. 79, Article III, "A Treaty Between the United States and the Kaskaskia Tribe of Indians", December 23, 1803 .
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Sat Oct-02-10 09:30 PM
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1. Doesn't it seem odd that the man credited with seperation of church and state |
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would be the author of federal funds for church activity?
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Sat Oct-02-10 09:57 PM
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2. And now they get millions |
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Even as they direct their minions to destroy the Government.
Of course, churches were recognized as important allies in killing Native Americans. If you need some killin' or demonizin' done, best to get the church involved. The Nazis knew that well, as do the Klan, as do today's repigs.
Or was your point something else entirely?
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