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Get off the Muslim thing and think about this again. How would you feel about some other religion putting a massive symbol of their religion in the lobby of your courthouse?

I can't that you'd approve, especially considering the language of the First Amendment.

Get off the Muslim thing and think about this again. How would you feel about some other religion putting a massive symbol of their religion in the lobby of your courthouse?

I can't [imagine] that you'd approve, especially considering the language of the First Amendment.

I wouldn't approve, and I don't approve of Moore's monument, either, though I think it's a stretch to say that either one would constitute an establishment of state religion. But on the other hand, I would not really be bothered by such a display -- it is certainly so unimportant that bringing suit on account of it is a waste of the courts' time & money. I don't approve of military or congressional chaplains -- which seem to me to go a lot further toward violating the 1st -- but it's hardly worth wasting breath or brain cells over it, either. There are so many more important unconstitutional undertakings.

And if a Muslim or Buddhist judge were ordered by an appeals court to remove some comparable symbol of their religion, I'd still be rooting for the judge to refuse to comply, because I am sick of the federal judiciary thinking that *they* are God.