“Last year, the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation wrote the town of Taos demanding that it move the memorial to a “more appropriate private location” or defend a federal lawsuit because the memorial’s cross purportedly violates the Establishment Clause.”
This is a racket. These groups and foundations get court ordered “legal fees” paid for every lawsuit they settle.
There are your garden-variety atheists and there are your misanthropic atheists. Some of the latter may indeed believe that Earth needs to rid itself of our species, but the former includes those who live by certain American standards.
After World War I, Calvin Coolidge, as part of his acceptance speech for the Republican vice-presidential nomination on July 27th 1920, cautioned the country against abandoning its social contract with its warriors, ‘The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.’ This oft-repeated quote may well have a resonance for the Byzantine emperor Maurice, an emperor who came to prominence through his military success in the late antique period, but in a different context.
Perhaps it is time for the citizens of TAOS to pull a “Kit Carson” and guard the monument as Kit did the American Flag in the 1860s.
Am I wrong, doesn’t the Constitution guarantee freedom of religion, not freedom from religion? While I am not religious I find these anti religion people offensive. Plus in this day and age isn’t it illegal to offend people?
Fight these psycho bastards till you crush them. Set up a “GoFundMe” defense fund. Get the best local lawyers around including combat vets from our various wars.
Take the legal fight to the Foundation etc. Go after them for harassment, frivolous lawsuits, defamation, etc.
Show them no mercy. Destroy them just like we did the Japanese enemy. Take no prisoners.
We really are a divided country. A house divided against itself can not stand.
JoMa
To make an concerted effort to keep God out of government is having the government promote the religion of atheism. Atheism is the absence of God. When there is a blocking of God from a forum then you have atheism expressed.