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Religious concert draws fire from the American Civil Liberties Union
dailycomet.com ^ | November 6, 2008 | Ben Lundin and Raymond Legendre

Posted on 11/06/2008 2:12:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

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1 posted on 11/06/2008 2:12:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Secularism is a religion. Spare me.


2 posted on 11/06/2008 2:13:22 PM PST by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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Gee, where was the ACLU when the Muslims got the Univ of Michigan to install foot baths u sing public money?

Oh wait, Islam is not the “incorrect” religion.

The ACLU has been attacking the foundations of this country since its inception. Who is the ACLU, and who were its founders?


3 posted on 11/06/2008 2:14:28 PM PST by Boiling Pots (Can we go back to hating John McCain now?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The ACLU lawyer should be introduced to Rule 11.


4 posted on 11/06/2008 2:14:54 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The new litmus test should be - Substitute the word “Muslim” for “Christian” in any given context. If no objection would be made when the word Muslim is used, then STFU.


5 posted on 11/06/2008 2:15:53 PM PST by Heartland Mom ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan)
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the First Amendment prohibits government funding and promotion of one religion over another

Several levels of logical fallacy here. As usual.

6 posted on 11/06/2008 2:16:24 PM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Chairman Obama and the New Bolsheviks believe they are free (as in “license”), with no checks and no balances, to assert their will. Scrubbing any vestige of faith from the public square is a high priority.
7 posted on 11/06/2008 2:17:43 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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This is beyond idiotic.

Apparently the ACLU has run out of things to do and must whine about this to further justify it’s existence.


8 posted on 11/06/2008 2:20:07 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Boiling Pots

“Who is the ACLU, and who were its founders?”

Communists. Look it up.


9 posted on 11/06/2008 2:23:08 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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the city has no role in the event other than use of its streets

Priceless. Will the ACLU prevail under an Obama Nation?

10 posted on 11/06/2008 2:23:17 PM PST by JimSEA (just another liberal-bashing fearmonger)
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To: Boiling Pots

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded in 1920 by a group of people who were concerned that the Bill of Rights was nothing but a “parchment barrier” to governmental misdeeds.
Among the founders of the ACLU, or as it was originally called, the Civil Liberties Bureau, were Crystal Eastman and Roger Baldwin. Eastman (1881-1928) studied law at New York University after getting her undergraduate degree at Vassar.
Roger Baldwin (1884-1991) attended Harvard obtaining his bachelor’s degree in 1904 and his master’s in 1905.


11 posted on 11/06/2008 2:23:23 PM PST by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The Mayor should have burned the letter on the town hall steps.


12 posted on 11/06/2008 2:26:05 PM PST by Clock King (Radical Conservatives, arise!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I think it’s time to revival that traditional American practice of tarring and feathering and riding those ACLU’er on a rail out of town.


13 posted on 11/06/2008 2:29:02 PM PST by PanzerKardinal
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To: RightWhale

Chairman O and the New Bolsheviks may use eerily similar “logic” in an attempt to foist the so-called Fairness Doctrine upon us.

These are Stalinists.


14 posted on 11/06/2008 2:29:09 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How many times does it take for this to sink in with the left?

THERE IS NO “SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE” IN THE CONSTITUTION!!!!

That idea came from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote several years after the Constitution was written. If anything, the Constitution PREVENTS the “separation of church and state”! How does “no religion on public property” not go against “Congress shall not abridge freedom of religion”? And how many times do we have to tell them that these restrictions are meant for CONGRESS? The 10th amendment says that any power not specifically given to Congress by the Constitution goes to the states or the people, so that means that the Constitution actually says that states do have the power to deal with religion. Is it too much to ask that lawyers able to change our laws read the Constitution at least once?


15 posted on 11/06/2008 2:29:13 PM PST by NavySon ("Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I may do some driving tomorrow. If I end up at the festival, I’ll post pictures.


16 posted on 11/06/2008 2:32:56 PM PST by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Chairman of the Bard

That’s right. However they have not kept up. Marxism is very much part of the dead past. The fallacies that doomed Marxism are still refuting that ideology, but quicker every day. Already Marxist terminology is being co-opted by the new generation and the Marxists are in total confusion.


17 posted on 11/06/2008 2:37:33 PM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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I sure hope you are right. Did you read Quin Hillyer's piece in Spectator today?

http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/06/saul-alinsky-takes-the-white-h

That's what I call pessimism.

I have a good buddy who is a Capitol policeman, and was there for some of the festivities in DC after Chairman-elect Obama was officially official. He said he saw literally dozens and dozens, likely hundreds of Che Guevara shirts.

Leftists start by indoctrinating our youth, taking control of our education institutions, brainwashing, scrubbing and re-writing history, shaping world views.

We've got our work cut out for us.

18 posted on 11/06/2008 2:47:06 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard

They are hopeful aren’t they. However, the next few years are going to be rough and they will either come back to earth real quick or become irrelevant. The Brownshirts won’t be tolerated since they will be a liability.


19 posted on 11/06/2008 2:51:49 PM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yet I bet the ACLU supports that one play where Jesus is made into a homosexual who sodomizes his disciples. A play that attacks the Christian faith is ok. It’ not ok if it portrays the Christian faith in a positive light.


20 posted on 11/06/2008 3:02:58 PM PST by Pinkbell
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