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To: highball
You said the government should be able to show favoritism towards a specific religion. That's not right.

Sure it is. If a majority of the people are a certain faith, Government should accomodate their customs and beliefs. Today government is down right hostile towards display of religious beliefs of the majority. If 90% of the community holds Christian beliefs, than it is appropriate for allow a prayer that reflects those beliefs.

52 posted on 07/12/2005 11:31:11 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

The Constitution is about protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. That includes faiths. A faith cannot be promoted by the government just because it's the majority faith.

Perhaps you'd have no problem with a predominantly Muslim municipality promoting Islam as the "true faith" over Christianity?


58 posted on 07/12/2005 1:31:06 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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