Posted on 10/19/2007 3:35:41 AM PDT by Man50D
Buddha is welcome but the Bible is banned at the Bloomington, Ind., city hall after officials booted a display of the Ten Commandments erected by Christians wanting equal treatment with the Far East religion promoted by the Dalai Lama.
A WND request for comment from Mayor Mark Kruzan wasn't immediately returned but a team of Christians upset over the promotion of Buddhism told WND they are seeking legal advice about their next step.
The dispute arose over a display of religious statues of Buddha and other items, including religious cloth paintings, erected in the Bloomington City Hall to coincide with a coming visit of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader of Buddhism.
Amy Bernitt, one of the Christians who made arrangements for the Ten Commandments to be made available for a similar display about Christianity, told WND a few hours after the stone tablets were delivered for display in City Hall, "I got a very rude call from public works, telling us the Ten Commandments had been taken down and we need to come get them."
The tablets were delivered and set up by a volunteer team of Christians after city officials declined to respond to the group's multiple telephone and e-mail requests about the procedure used to erect the Buddhist display.
At the installation of the Christian symbol, according to the local Herald Times newspaper, Jim Billingsley read a statement explaining what was going on.
"These commandments are our symbol of peace, and we want to include them with the city's display to promote religious enlightenment. We want to be clear that we do not agree with the ideology of the Dalai Lama or Buddhist beliefs – we are Christians and believe in one God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," he said.
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Idiots.
They must be drinking allll that corn!
why not call in the ACLU? don’t they safeguard our children from the evil influences of religion? \sarcasm.
If so, I don't see the need to constantly push for "equal time". So they marked the visit of a Buddhist, so what? The Ten Commandments are available all the time.
Bloomington is home of Indiana university so not surprised.
The last time I checked, the Buddhists were NOT chopping heads, or advocating my death.
the Chinese Communists.
The issue is about fighting the ACLU and other groups who are not anti-religious, just anti-Christian and anti-anything that represents traditional American values.
The goal is equality.
I think that’s pretty noble. And I also think it’s far past the time we started fighting fire with fire.
The war on Christianity goes on. But there are valient Christians willing to fight the war now. Include me in that number.
The Ten Commandments are available all the time? Where? In the Bloomington City Hall?
The city is buying space in the magazine to extoll Buddism? Did they do that for Christianity? Judism?
Get a clue.
I say this as a devout Christian, but I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. I don’t worship symbols or statues. More important than having a 10 Commandments statue is striving to OBEY the 10 Commandments on a daily basis.
What they say is more important than where they’re located, IMO.
If so, I don't see the need to constantly push for "equal time". So they marked the visit of a Buddhist, so what? The Ten Commandments are available all the time.
That's about what it sounds like form the article. The display was a temporary thing, set up to honor the Dalai Lama. Maybe if the Pope ever visits Bloomington, then they can advocate for a ten commandments display.
I go back to Bloomington once a year and see economic ruin, despite the fact that it is home to the state’s land grant university. GE has left, RCA has left; in fact any kind of industry in Bloomingtion packed up a long time ago, and now the city looks far worse-buildings and houses in disrepair. The only businesses are trendy coffee shops and restaurants on 4th st and other service oriented providers.
Its depressing there, and frankly I’m always glad to leave at the end of my visit.
Ditto
I’m about 50 miles southwest of there. I call it “The Peoples Republik of Bloomington”
It has been proported to have the highest per capita male homosexual population in the nation.
This is a town where smoking on the streets is BANNED, and will result in a fine..
A University town where liberalism has run amuk in recent years, as the non-university jobs all flee town...
“I go back to Bloomington once a year and see economic ruin”
It’s becoming a liberalized version of Muncie. Vast stretches of depressed areas surrounding a conclave of incredibly-paid state employees...
I don’t understand how the display antagonizes Christendom. It sounds like they put up the display to honor the Dahli Lama, who is a well known world figure. It is an honor to have someone of such world renown as a guest lecturer at a University.
Those who put the display of the ten commandments in front of the Buddhism display were IMO in the wrong. #1, they didn’t have any approval to set up a display at all. #2 they placed it directly in front of the display on Buddhism.
That kind of action reminds me of when my 4th grade son was running for student council and got caught taking down the posters for the other candidates and putting up his in their place. (He got in big trouble for that one) It is childish and immature.
If the Pope was visiting, I would hope that a display on Catholicism and the Vatican would be allowed. Buddhism is the most practiced religion in the world, and I don’t think that educating our citizens on the Dahli Lama and Buddhism is antagonistic at all.
We need a Second American Revolution while there is still an America left to save.
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