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To: Sacajaweau
"You are also free to practice your religion here in the United States."

As we all are, but do you have a right to place expressions of your religion on taxpayer property that I do not have? Where is that enumerated in the Constitution?

192 posted on 11/19/2002 10:24:16 AM PST by Kerberos
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To: Kerberos
In God We Trust and Jefferson, Adams and Hancock were Christians not Moslems.

Ops4 God Bless America!
198 posted on 11/19/2002 10:26:43 AM PST by OPS4
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To: Kerberos
do you have a right to place expressions of your religion on taxpayer property that I do not have? Where is that enumerated in the Constitution?

And where, in the Constitution, does it say that the displays of one's religious beliefs is unconstitutional?

And where does it say that the display of the Ten Commandments establishes a religion? And what, pray tell, is the specific religion that the Ten Commandments establish? (Because that is the test: the Constitution states: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ESTABLISHING RELIGION.) Jewish? Baptist? Catholic? Protestant? Mormon (they use the Bible, too)? Born-again non-denominational?

You can't lump all of those together and collectively call them a "religion." They are, in fact, different, having many kinds and variations of doctrine?

So, which religion does the Ten Commandments refer to? If you chose one, then I may chose a different one, and I daresay we could have thousands of answers to that question.

215 posted on 11/19/2002 10:33:51 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Kerberos
As we all are, but do you have a right to place expressions of your religion on taxpayer property that I do not have? Where is that enumerated in the Constitution?

Kerberos - You're way off track here. The Constitution only restricts the federal government (Congress actually) from establishing a religion and from preventing the free exercise of religion. If Alabamans want a memorial to the 10 Commandments in their courthouse, they're free to put one there. There is NOTHING in the Consitution preventing them from exercising their rights to do so. In reality, your tax money goes for many things you don't want (and many things I don't want). That's because tax money goes to many different things. You're not going to want all of them.

490 posted on 11/19/2002 1:41:35 PM PST by yendu bwam
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