WaxTextures (cute name - won't ask!), I only take responsibility for my actions as I cannot take responsibility for everyone else's actions. That said, I am a member of the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church & State, two organizations which understand and try to uphold/retain Constitutional laws and rights. Being an atheist and skeptic, which is almost as bad as being a gypsy in National Socialist Germany some time ago, I am also a member of CSICOP and JREF. I vote (and am not a member of any particular party) as often as possible, but it's hard to make rational decisions into law when you're in the super-minority. It seems that the only way to avoid these breaches of Constitutional law and rights is to bring in the lawyers. I'm still fuming over the "under god" ferver that engulfed the nation after the 9th Circuit Court CORRECTLY ruled that it was unconstitutional. It is - it violates the spirit (and precedence) of church/state separation. Even if "God" were not capitalized, it still excludes athiests, agnostics, and any religion or belief system not theologically structured. It was added in 1952 (circa) during the height of McCarthyism and the "red scare", not in the early history of our nation as some deluded religious-right idiots would have their sheep believe. With them in mind, the laws embodied within the Constitution were not based on the Decalogue (Ten commandments). Four deal only with religious matters (other gods, sabbath, name vain, graven images), three more are more advice and cannot, by precedence, be considered law (honor mum+dad, covet goods, covet wife - which are mind crimes, as it were). That leaves killing, stealing, lying, and adultery (which in some situations and in some religions is not a sin or against the law). Note that the total is 11 since even the bible can't decide on which 10. Constitutional law is based upon English law, Roman law, and a myriad other "enlightenment" sources. BYS