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Blessing of school draws protest
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 8/28/06 | Matt Zapotosky

Posted on 08/29/2006 6:29:42 PM PDT by dukeman

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Whiners.
1 posted on 08/29/2006 6:29:43 PM PDT by dukeman
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"There’s not that appearance of endorsement by the school"

Then STFU!!!

2 posted on 08/29/2006 6:32:20 PM PDT by socal_parrot
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To: dukeman

Has anyone read the book "Term Limits"?


3 posted on 08/29/2006 6:32:53 PM PDT by unkus
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The answer is to allow any religious group to bless the school in its own manner, not to gag all religion. Good grief, schools and their denizens could use all the blessings they can get. There's probably more praying going on at schools than most churches these days.


4 posted on 08/29/2006 6:33:44 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: dukeman
the American Civil Liberties Union about the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.

If we didn't have so many judges who abuse the bench for their political whims, this would be laughable. Just show me where the Consitution prohibits this...

5 posted on 08/29/2006 6:34:02 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† |Iran Azadi| SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d, N0t Y0urs | 8/30: National Geek Day)
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Well, I guess they'll have to get a whole bunch of ACLU lawyers to hold hands around the school to curse it now.

They better be careful. Now that the school's been blessed, the ACLU'ers might burst into flames if they get too close. Geez.


6 posted on 08/29/2006 6:34:16 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: dukeman

Just another attack on religious freedom in America by Soros' Commie Crapweasels.


7 posted on 08/29/2006 6:34:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (What changes do you intend to make to your lifestyle now that Pluto is no longer "a planet?")
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To: unkus
... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...

Words the ACLU chooses to ignore.

8 posted on 08/29/2006 6:35:34 PM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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"...constitutionally mandated separation of church and state."

Ask these dense "journalists" where in the document where those words exist.

9 posted on 08/29/2006 6:36:14 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: sionnsar

American Civil Liberties Union =SATAN'S TOOL!!


10 posted on 08/29/2006 6:37:46 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I always add feckless in front of crapweasel.


11 posted on 08/29/2006 6:42:11 PM PDT by shankbear
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I wonder what the ACLU would have done if it had been a group protesting the war or handing out condoms?


Wait, I already know the answer to that one. :(


12 posted on 08/29/2006 6:44:04 PM PDT by DemforBush
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Why does the ACLU believe that religious speech isn't free speech? I thought they were pro free speech regardless of the content? (okay, that's a bit of sarcasm, but it does point to their hypocrisy).


13 posted on 08/29/2006 6:45:49 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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Actually, I like this idea. Get clergy from all sorts of churches and temples to get together and go around blessing all the public buildings in their areas. It'll drive the ACLU nuts and tie up the courts, it's not like they do anything for normal citizens anyway, for decades. We could even make it a weekly event.


14 posted on 08/29/2006 6:48:33 PM PDT by Roccus
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10-4! I'll try to do better. LOL!


15 posted on 08/29/2006 6:49:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The press is depressed. Their boy Ernesto turned out to be just another "killer" thunderstorm.)
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To: dukeman

"great divine one, creator of us all"...

Who knows, maybe they were referring to the Earth Mother or Allah. Or Bette Midler. That might make the ACLU feel a bit better about the whole thing.


16 posted on 08/29/2006 6:58:02 PM PDT by olderwiser
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The ACLU never ceases to amaze me!


17 posted on 08/29/2006 7:09:19 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: sionnsar
Just show me where the Consitution prohibits this...

Penumbras and emanations -- say it slowly, in a deep voice, repeat often...you too can sound as learned as the judges to which you refer.

18 posted on 08/29/2006 7:23:44 PM PDT by T-Bird45
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To: dukeman

The school is probably happy to have someone blessing it, what with the kids cursing it and all.


19 posted on 08/29/2006 7:25:14 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: DemforBush

I wonder what the ACLU would have done if it had been a group protesting the war or handing out condoms?

Now if it had been a group of Wickins the ACLU would have smiled fondly...


20 posted on 08/29/2006 7:26:00 PM PDT by hardworking (Give Hitlery a chance and help the pantsuit industry.)
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