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1 posted on 07/30/2008 12:23:54 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
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the cross – visible for miles – has become a memorial to veterans, and its secular message outweighs any religious meaning.

irrelevant

2 posted on 07/30/2008 12:26:35 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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American Civil Liberties Union. “There's nothing more religious than a cross.”

The religious symbol for the ACLU would be either a ^hammer and sickle^ or a ^crescent and star^.

3 posted on 07/30/2008 12:27:18 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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“The central fact of the case is it’s a 43-foot-tall cross,” said David Blair-Loy, legal director of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “There’s nothing more religious than a cross.”

Wrong. The cross is a symbol, a sacred symbol of the Christian faith but there is so much more to Christianity than the displaying of the cross. People’s lives are guided by Christ, including those in gov’t. Many make their decisions guided by faith. What will you do then, Mr. Blair-Loy? Sue someone in gov’t because they use their faith to help them make decisions at their job?

The ACLU is so stupidly annoyed by the tangible that they miss the much bigger picture. Christianity and religion are more, MUCH more, than the crosses we erect. It’s pervasive and entrenched in people’s hearts. Try suing that.


4 posted on 07/30/2008 12:28:24 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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Right decision, wrong reasoning.


7 posted on 07/30/2008 1:30:59 PM PDT by RonF
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