EU Constitution Compromise Gained – Without Christianity Reference

One more reason why I am glad to be an American.

European Union leaders agreed Friday on the first constitution for the reunited continent, spelling out the voting system and nations’ rights for the bloc’s 25 members but keeping out any reference to God, officials said.

Despite last-minute lobbying from Pope John Paul II, a reference to Europe’s Christian traditions did not make it into the text – something Spain, Poland and several other countries sought, several diplomats said.

“At a moment when a new order is being born in old Europe, Spain cannot fail to bring forth among its many contributions the express manifestation of its Christian roots,” John Paul said in a Vatican City meeting with Spain’s ambassador.

France and others say this would violate the principle of separation of church and state.

I highlight the last part because this is something that belies a secularization of lawmaking that to the American mindset is incomprehensible. Our entire foundation for Independence is based off of ideas of rights that are intransgressible, guarenteed by God.

What bothers me more about this is the fact that the Supreme Court has made the unprecedented move to in Lawrence v. Texas to look towards European jurisprudence in an effort to alter American jurisprudence.

If this is a trend that the majority bench seems to want to continue rather than reverse, I have deep reservations that the differences that made the American revolution so uniquely different than the French one will be all fearfully distorted.