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To: Lesforlife

how far we have fallen from the founding fathers. From a Christian Nation to persecuting Christians for their beliefs.


3 posted on 07/13/2007 3:09:33 PM PDT by balch3
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To: balch3
how far we have fallen from the founding fathers. From a Christian Nation to persecuting Christians for their beliefs.

Oh, damn, I was so hoping that these were just liberal plants who disrupted the Senate, some trick of the Donks to show their superiority.

4 posted on 07/13/2007 3:11:15 PM PDT by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: balch3

These are friends from Operation Save America who
boldly stood in the gap!!

OSA is having its National Event in Birmingham, Alabama
the week of July 15, 2007

www.operationsaveamerica.org

Pastor Bob Enyart will present Focus on the Strategy 2 - Forty Years in the Wilderness on Tuesday July 17, 2007 and another full page ad challenging
Dr. Dobson and National Right to Life for celebrating the PBA ban will run in the Birmingham News on July 16th.

To hear Focus on the Strategy 2 contact Doers of the Word Church 4744 Messer Airport Highway Birmingham, Alabama - 704-933-3414


10 posted on 07/13/2007 3:21:27 PM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13!!!!!)
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To: balch3

I wonder if the Indian parliament opens with a Christian prayer.


13 posted on 07/13/2007 3:24:07 PM PDT by 353FMG (America, first, last and always.)
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All in the name of “diversity”. Today that means that Christians should be shunned and all other religions should be honored.

That’s the Democrat view.


14 posted on 07/13/2007 3:25:34 PM PDT by kjo
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To: balch3
... how far we have fallen from the founding fathers. From a Christian Nation to persecuting Christians for their beliefs.

The First Amendment specifically prohibits the United States of America from having an established religion, be it Christian or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or Druid.

If you want to live in a nation that is legally "Christian", then you need to move to Great Britain where the Church of England is still the established religion.

These people were not arrested "for their beliefs". They were arrested for creating a public nuisance in the Senate just as they would have been arrested if they had started chanting "No blood for oil!", "Clinton was a rapist!", "Go New York Yankees!' or "Save the gay whales!".

Once you applaud the Left-wing tactic of shouting down what you do not like, including the prayers of other religions protected under the First Amendment, then don't be surprised when others who do not follow your religion decide that they have a right to start shouting down your prayers.

18 posted on 07/13/2007 3:36:24 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: balch3
to persecuting Christians for their beliefs.

Nobody was persecuting Christians here. They were removing disruptive jerks from the visitors' gallery because they were being disruptive jerks. This had nothing to do with their beliefs & everything to do with their bad behavior.

29 posted on 07/13/2007 3:52:46 PM PDT by BearCub
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To: balch3
how far we have fallen from the founding fathers. From a Christian Nation to persecuting Christians for their beliefs.

Oh, stuff it! These people were creating a disruption. They weren't persecuted. They were thrown out for their boorish, sanctimonious behavior. No sympathy from me.

Hindus aren't the bad guys.

It was a generic, nondenominational prayer. The same type of prayer I hear every night at precisely 9:55pm on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Trying to make these people out to be "victims" is pathetic. They were causing a scene. And I'm not surprised that World Nut-job Daily comes to their defense.

35 posted on 07/13/2007 4:00:03 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: balch3
how far we have fallen from the founding fathers...

"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1782
47 posted on 07/13/2007 4:16:55 PM PDT by mngran
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To: balch3

My original thought was that these ‘patriots’ were really just assholes. Your post reminded me to always listen to my first instinct.


57 posted on 07/13/2007 6:01:20 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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