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To: DPB101
That is what happens when you live in a free society. Views you don't like are expressed. I prefer that to the alternative. There is no basis except recent left wing court decisions for censoring religious expression.

It depends on which religion, now doesn't it? Would you object to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah say, "I will promote Mormonism," and put up statues and plaques to Mormonism to the exclusion of all religions? What if it was Judaism? Buddhism? Shinto? Islam? Catholicism? Heck, even Wicca.

From my reading of the decision, Judge Moore did this unilaterally, with even consulting with the other justices of the Alabama Supreme Court. In fact, he told no one, save, of course, Coral Ridge Ministries, who did film the installation of the statue/monument/chunk of granite.

238 posted on 07/01/2003 7:56:04 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Catspaw
Freedom is for everyone. I am on the side of those who founded America: let people do what they want, express their faith anyway they want. Somehow Americans worked it out for over 150 years. It wasn't until after WWII that liberals were able to turn the first amendment on its head. If you haven't noticed, enforcement of "separation of church and state" is very selective. Muslims are allowed to pray in NYC public schools, Muslims are allowed to use Federal land for a camp, Congress spent a million bucks on a religious school in Israel for "Black Israelites" from Chicago--yet the ACLU is suing to tear down a Veterans memorial in the Mojave desert which was erected in 1934. Why? It is in the shape of a Christian Cross.
246 posted on 07/01/2003 8:06:21 PM PDT by DPB101
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