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To: Dog Gone
What seemed to impress this court about this monument was the "in your face" aspect of it. The bigger and more blatant the endorsement of religion (as well as the newness of it), the more likely it's going to be found in violation of the establishment clause.

10 X 0 = 0. If there's no constitutional violation in the expression of a particular belief, then expressing it louder isn't going to create a violation. The court is simply making up the law as it goes, not applying it impartially. It's the typical pattern with activist judges. There's no rhyme or reason to the way they rule; they just find one or two aspects of the case before them that they can latch onto, and then pretend that they've discovered a legal principle. Except it's missing the most important ingredient - PRINCIPLE!

In all their pseudolegalistic attempts at justification, one simple fact stands out: Nobody's rights were being violated. Now they may have imagined that their rights might be violated as a result of this particular expression, but until they can show that they actually are being violated, they don't have a legitimate case.

480 posted on 07/02/2003 10:58:53 AM PDT by inquest
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To: inquest
Then you'd have no problem if Congress established an official national religion, so long as it didn't violate anyone's rights in your opinion.
483 posted on 07/02/2003 11:02:05 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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