[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Well I don't think that public land should be used for religious displays, I think the government has far too many actual Constitutional duties they are ignoring to engage in any sort of religious commemoration or celebration."

When we talk about communities and religious displays, we are not talking about the Federal government. We are talking about local townships, borroughs, cities etc.. They have a lot more and different duties than the federal government. Whereas the Federal government should have nothing to do with public education, the local and state communities should. In my state constitution (Pennsylvania), it says that the state legislature is tasked with providing for a public education. That was ratified in 1776 during the time of our founders.

Local governments should be given great leeway in the handling of local problems. Each community should be empowered to make these decisions as long as it does not interfere with our natural God given rights. If the people of that community are in agreement, that should not bother the rest of us. If people don't like it, they can easily move to another community, not sue the community to impose theirs and not the community standards.

[allmendream]

I agree, but the meat of your argument is here....”Each community should be empowered to make these decisions as long as it does not interfere with our natural God given rights”.

The States and local communities are obligated, just as much as the Federal Government, to recognize those rights given to us by our Creator. Freedom of conscience is foremost among those rights.

Among the limited and enumerated powers given to the government I do not see the commemoration or celebration of religion to be among the proper role and power of the government. But I believe in a limited government of enumerated powers that recognizes the freedom of conscience of its citizens, not in a government whose obligation is to recognize the majority religious sensibilities of the local population.