'Tolerance' on American Universities???

POSTED BY: cartoon
UPDATED: Thursday, November 30, 2006 23:02
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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Just off the top of my head, "Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006" which passed the House in September (and is hanging around in the Senate). It's an attempt to make Establishment Clause lawsuits much more difficult.

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Hi, Soup.

Do you honestly believe that when Veteran's memorials, the Boy Scouts, Public Seals or other public expressions name "God" that such is the government establishing a religion?

Please, tell me you don't. Please.

There are people who do believe that such remarks are unconstitutional, and to that I reply, "please, learn how to read" or (at the very least) "please, learn how to comprehend what you read."

The government paying for a statue that has "God" inscribed somewhere on it, is not the government establishing a religion by any stretch of a sane person's imagination. If they want to know what real government-established religion is -- go to Iran, or Saudi Arabia. They should try reading about Europe during the Middle Ages, or even the Roman Empire (when they were using Christians as nightlights because they wouldn't offer meat to a statue of Jupiter).

Those were government-established religions. Putting the word "God" on a statue is not. Allowing the Boy Scouts to mention "God" in a pledge, is not.

It's the people who don't want the word "God" or "Jesus" to appear in (or on) anything which receives government money that are making other people try to pass to laws to prohibit the courts from interfering in their free right to the expression of their faith.

While we disagree on some issues, you seem to be a very reasonable person, so I'd genuinely like your opinion on this. I don't know where you personally stand on this, sir, so please, honestly tell me if you think that putting the word "God" on a statue is in violation of the First Amendment. And, if so, how you come to that reason. I ask this seriously, as (for the life of me) I cannot see it how it does.

Thank you.

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