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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Allen (AZ) would make church mandatory. God help us. [View all]One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)14. Well that was the Law here in the Bay State, once upon a time.
Yes we used to arrest people for not going to the Sunday Meeting House. By law we didn't have churches back then. Had a guy to rap you up side the head for napping too. And it wasn't any of this only couple hour affairs. We owned yer arse for the whole day.
Although going to Church did have one big benefit. If you were a male of age why you could vote. As that was part of the meeting as well, presumably while the wimin folk were cleaning up from lunch.
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I am inclined to believe the First Amendment could have originally been called the Protection from the Church of New England Amendment.
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She OK with the manpower and budget it would take to create an agency to track and enforce that?
tanyev
Mar 2015
#6
I bet it wouldn't take long before churches had to apply to get on an approved list.
tanyev
Mar 2015
#11
Hmm, never heard of it. I'm going to look it up. Curl up with a good book time.
SummerSnow
Mar 2015
#35
1963, Air Force boot camp at Lackland AFB church attendence WAS mandatory. n/t
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2015
#29