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To: Maelstrom
The government's time and money aren't at issue. Therefore 2/3 of your point are invalid.

You seem to be experiencig severe cognitive dissonance. Fractional division is irrelevant to the particular matter at hand, so do try and remain topical, hmmmm?

The government owns the majority of property in America, so yes, there is a very signficiant prohibition against religions.

Kindly conduct yourself to the next state park, for example. Once there, begin to pray. Or, if it better suits you, read your bible. You will find no officer of the state preventing you from doing so.

And yes...this prohibition is what you're supporting.

Again, you are not prohibited from worship on gov't property, thus such an example cannot be used to further detail some bogeyman paradigm about prohibition of religion or the free exercise thereof.

You have not demonstrated the ability to consider the meaning of removing all things that allude to religion from government property

Certainly I can consider such a concept. In the case in Alabama, however, your point is irrelevant.

. You're focused on some flawed, and non-existant attempt toward the establishment of religion that supposedly exists in a work of art that merely has a Biblical theme.

I see you are utterly unaquainted with either Judge Moore, his statements or the case in general. It's not there.

160 posted on 08/25/2003 1:04:33 AM PDT by Pahuanui (When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud)
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To: Pahuanui
Your argument is weak.

"Kindly conduct yourself to the next state park, for example. Once there, begin to pray."

For how long will that be legal? There's already a shifting line in the sand that shouldn't be there at all. However, you fail the test of analogy. The monument isn't a prayer, it's a work of art with a Biblical theme.

In some towns, if such a thing can be visibile to the public, even on PRIVATE PROPERTY, it's outlawed. (Nativity scenes) This is censorship, both there, and in Alabama. The censorship only has a single logical source: anti-religious bigotry.

IF Judge Moore is the source of your upset, you prosecute Judge Moore and refrain from persecuting all that see benefit or no harm from the mere presence of a work of art with Biblical themes.
170 posted on 08/25/2003 5:40:40 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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