By SueN
- Guests:
- The honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
- Dr. Terry Jones, Pastor, Dove World Church and author of "Islam Is Of The Devil".
- Topics:
- If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"...
- A church in Florida plans to commemorate 9/11 by burning Qurans...what?!
- 'Anything Goes' Friday.
- Bumper Music:
- Everywhere, Michelle Branch.
- Life Is Beautiful, Press Play.
- Voices Carry, 'Til Tuesday.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Freedom, Jimi Hendrix.
- Do Right, Jimmie's Chicken Shack.
- Anything Goes (Chinese), from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Thank God It's Friday, Love and Kisses (video).
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- Abraham Lincoln.
- Letter: Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jan. 1. 1802.
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
