Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	D@!mn that Cross!
Date:	8/27/2013 8:59:01 PM

“A Jewish firefighter who wants to display a Christian cross as part of a New Jersey 9-11 memorial is facing stiff opposition from a group of atheists who called the religious image ‘grossly offensive.’ ”

The American Atheists are threatening to sue Princeton, NJ if they proceed with plans to erect the memorial. They took issue with a beam that was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center because a cross had been cut out of one side of the beam.

 “This particular beam has a religious symbol on it,” American Atheists president David Silverman told Fox News. “They have a beam with a religious symbol and that makes it a religious icon.”

Silverman said placing the beam on public land would be a “clear violation of the separation of church and state.” [Fox News, 27AUG13}

Nowhere in the Constitution do either of these two words appear:  "church"  "separation"

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	What does it REALLY say?
Date:	8/27/2013 9:02:30 PM

ACTUAL TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION: “Article the third [Amendment I]  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	D@mn whatever the Constitution says.
Date:	8/28/2013 9:41:55 AM

Important and distinctive points:

1- Congress is not involved,

2 - No law is being made to establish a (an official) religion, and

3 – An Atheist is misapplying the first Amendment to prohibit the free exercise of religion in New Jersey.