Posted on 07/16/2003 1:39:06 PM PDT by beaversmom
You've probably heard that the ACLU was successful in getting the Parks service to remove 3 Biblical Verses from the Grand Canyon.
Here's the story just in case someone has seen it yet.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946848/posts
Some conservatives like Dennis Prager feel like this is the last straw and want to fight back.
He's asking that atheists, believers in other religions, agnostics, Christians, and Jews all get involved to have the plaques put back where they have been for over 30 years. He's actually received letters from atheists who are as outraged as some Christians and Jews.
Today he had a guest from the Arizona state senate that wants to help in the fight.
First off, Dennis would like everyone who isn't happy about this to e-mail, write, or call Gale Norton--Secretary of the Interior--to express displeasure but to do it an a very mannered way.
Second, he wants those same people to e-mail him to let him know if you would be willing to march to the Grand Canyon if the letter campaign isn't sufficient to get the plaques back up.
Third, he wants people to write to State Senator Robert Blendu to let him know that you stand with the Senator to get the plaques back up.
Spread the word.
I'm just extrapolating from recent history. How far can we slide before it can't be reversed?
Btw, I should point out that the Psalms are not just "some people's religious beliefs". To call them that is to take sides in a religious war, and is ipso facto a religious position, that of secular humanism.
You won't get far playing on a field which the other side has marked so that only their touchdowns count.
No accident that Bill Clinton's excuse was always "you will find no evidence of laws broken". If if it legal, to the left, it is moral.
Those who believe purging the Ten Commandments from courthouses protects freedom are deluded.
This one Psalm is acknowledging the Lord as the creator. Gee, that reminds me of another acknowledgement -- THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE!
If they're going to get serious about obliterating all mention of God, then we'll need to redact the Declaration of Independance, a foundation of our country, 1776:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
IMO this proves that they're WRONG, because unless they want a revolution, they can't touch the Declaration of Independance.
But I do believe it's important that we don't have a federally sanctioned or pushed religion, and that includes SECULAR HUMANISM.
And my point about the Declaration of Independance is that they can't have their cake and eat it too. If they're going to get rid of the Bible verses about God as creator, they're going to have to revise the Declaration of Idependance.
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