Posted on 01/14/2017 11:34:01 AM PST by nickcarraway
Was Aunt Clara Samantha Stevens confused elderly witch aunt?
That MLK statue looks like it was made by North Korea.
When I was in high school, we were taught that separation of church and state simply meant that there was no official religion of the country, that all people were free to practice the religion of their choice. How we got from there to the bias against any religion (although Christians and Jews are the primary target) is a sordid story of liberalism, minority rights, and legal expenses or the threat thereof. I don’t know that we can ever revert back to the former attitude toward religion but pray that we will.
That MLK statue looks like it was made by North Korea.
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Close. The sculptor was Lei Yixin from communist China.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
Get that damn rock out of my Mall.
I agree with you.
First of all, it should be argued that this cross was merely a marker observing a historical fact.
That that fact happened to be that one of the first Western edifices in the region was religious in nature, should not matter.
Anti-Christian (and anti-U.S.) people should not be able to sanitize our history.
This is indeed a first amendment issue.
There’s no real church and state issue here.
This is a history and state issue.
Remove Santa from the city name too. They have already lost their souls.
“’We are happy that the city divested itself of this religious symbol, and that the constitution is now being complied with,’ said Rebecca Markert, attorney for Freedom From Religion Foundation.”
Leftists consistently say and do the exact opposite of what they insist they say and do.
This violates the Constitution - but the Profane Court betrayed the nation long ago to embrace this inverted illogic.
Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion.
Gaia must not violate the separation of church and state; either.
Sniffing only...
Sangre de Cristo
Corpus Christi
Rebecca dear, you and your clients really lost in the end.
Only the Federal government was bound by the Establishment clause. States and local governments were legally free to established religion. The Constitution would not have been ratified if disestablishment were a prerequisite. It wasn’t until the misapplication of the 14th Amendment became prevalent that anyone would have even considered such an un-American idea.
Simply because, Antidisestablishment.
Yes and she was adorable
Agreed.
Now that historic religion is a violation we must change city name of Saint Clara to something less “churchy & statey”.
I nominate Aunty Clara or Aunt Clara.
The monstrosity was sculpted in China.
If you think that is ugly and outsized, wait for the Bathhouse Barry statue. It won’t be long before the clamor begins.
Haha! And with a Mo haircut.
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