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To: varina davis; wardaddy
This issue is so much more than just a symbolic "rock" in a courthouse. It is based on a principle and on heartfelt rebellion against multiple decades of a force-fed diet espousing anti-religion, anti-morals and anti-nation.

Well said. People keep making the point, "It's just a rock, big deal, don't be idolators" and so on. But symbols have meaning, and the meaning of this event is clear. Reminds me of the recent SCOTUS sodomy decision, also symbolic. Only a tiny handful of homosexuals were ever arrested for sodomy anyway, usually public behavior. But to have sodomy protected - legal, authorized by the law behavior - changed the legal scenery, and the homo-pushers knew it.

So with this "rock". The atheist secular-humanist leftists want every last vestige of religion and moral absolutes scraped and scrubbed from every public place, and that oppression is seeping into privately owned companies and such as well.

Recently a friend who workds for US Cellular in a small Northern CA coastal town told me that the Christmas tree that has decorated the store in previous years will be tossed, lest one atheist or other person be offended. I don't even like the custom of Christmas trees, it's originally a pagan custom and has nothing to do with Jseus' birth or message. But this is an example of the gradual destruction of religious freedom of expression and it is serious business.

352 posted on 08/22/2003 4:55:03 PM PDT by First Amendment
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To: pram
But this is an example of the gradual destruction of religious freedom of expression and it is serious business.

At a previous job a few years back, the secretaries annually put up Christmas trees and decorations. This was a fairly large company in Texas, and no one ever complained.

One day, a corporate beancounter from up north visited right before Christmas and demanded that they be removed.

I wasn't there to witness it, but I heard many of the secretaries were literally in tears over it. I hope somebody got the SOB's name for "future reference".

363 posted on 08/22/2003 5:00:23 PM PDT by Mulder (Fight the future)
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To: pram
I have an acquaintance in Federal prison (non-violent) and they did the same thing ...banned Christmas trees...they do not even mention Easter but they have two state sponsored Ramadan months ...one for the Islamists and one for Nation of Islam...they fall on different times...why?...hell if i know.

This is the kind of tolerance that want to foist on us. We tolerate them and they make us invisble enough so that there is nothing for them to have to tolerate.
464 posted on 08/22/2003 6:25:23 PM PDT by wardaddy
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