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To: FormerLib
If any official member of the body wants to identify themselves as a Wiccan, then Wiccan prayers might be appropriate. Until then, they really aren't, are they?

Sure they are, if any member of the community identifes himself as a Wiccan. The board represents the community, not just itself. That's the relevant "body."

As much as I hate to agree with them, the ACLU is actually right on this one. If the Founders wanted religious freedom only for Christians and Jews, they could have done so in the Constitution. They, in their wisdom, did not.

66 posted on 08/10/2005 12:54:37 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

The founders gave us a blueprint by which to build and govern a nation that respects the individual balancing that against the public good.

We have to use it wisely. And while I don't like the idea of every religion under the sun offering prayers at our public meetings, I don't think you can just restrict such prayers to Christians.

I'm still waiting to read a response that would explain to any person of a non-Christian faith why their prayer cannot be said at public meeting but mine can.


73 posted on 08/10/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT by Madeleine Ward
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To: highball
Sure they are, if any member of the community identifes himself as a Wiccan. The board represents the community, not just itself. That's the relevant "body."

That's incorrect actually, the benediction in such a forum directly represents the Board itself.

74 posted on 08/10/2005 1:10:57 PM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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