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To: wgeorge2001
The public school system and most public universities; even displaying Christian displays has offended athiests and many Christians have been terminatied from public and private jobs for witnessing of the saving grace of God the Father in Christ Jesus. I myself have witnessed on job sites and called to the office and warned not to.

You didn't answer my question. You are citing examples of witnessing (also known as proselytizing), while I asked for examples to bolster your contention that your right to pray is somehow being denied. Words mean things, and people being told not to proselytize on private or government property does not mean the same thing as people being forbidden to pray. Please try again.

It's againgst our constitutional rights

You have a "constitutional" right to proselytize? Please provide the specific passage in the Constitution that grants you the right to do that. And if you say "free speech," I'll merely reply that your right to free speech does not obligate me in any way to listen.

Do you feel that religious speech is unacceptable?

Nope. (Irrelevant question, but Im happy to provide an answer anyway).

And Christians have the right to pray in public places and have manger scenes and easter scenes and Christmas partys just like pagans have earth days and other ridiculous days on public and private property.

Of course Christians have the "right" to pray in public places. No one has nor can anyone stop them from doing so if they wish. I can walk into any government building and pray all I want to, and I defy anyone to stop me. What Christians do not have the right to expect is that tax dollars (from Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims and atheists and agnostics and the amoral, etc.) be used to support religious speech solely favorable to Christians in any way.

161 posted on 09/14/2003 2:45:49 PM PDT by strela (Does CA need a Governor who can't check a box properly, even after 25 years of practice?)
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To: strela
You have a "constitutional" right to proselytize? Please provide the specific passage in the Constitution that grants you the right to do that. And if you say "free speech," I'll merely reply that your right to free speech does not obligate me in any way to listen.

Sterla; you are denying the truth and it has a way of pushing against those who try to deny it. Anyone with eyes and ears and some interest knows that the liberal communist movement in America is the left-wing democrats and green party(mainly funded by trial lawyers and teachers unions, racists and gender biased people,feminists and homosexual advocates),and that they do hate Christians and generally are anti-semites.They admire communist nations and leaders worldwide and would destroy the American Constitution and make the despicable United Nations Charters the new basis of America's laws.Their lies and abuses of the Constitutiion are evident nationwide and only the foolish 1/3 of American's who don't care about America's sovereign status and constitution are unaware and usually don't vote and yet they moan and groan about how"all politicians are liars and thieves". The other two thirds are liberals and conservatives and the respective political parties they vote for or against the politicians that are supposed to represent them within the boundries and limitations of our founding fathers Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The first ammendment plainly declares;

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Note 2 things herein. One, there is nothing here concerning the seperation of church and state, nothing at all though liberal and deceiving federal judges and university professors and many liberal school teacher say there is. I know better. Two; prohibiting free speech or the free exercise of religion ,especially the right to preech the gospel of God and His Christ is part of the establishment clause that liberal liars deny even exists.
Some people(usually those of the athiest belief and faith system want to deny and silence the Christians and Jews from talking about the Glory of the Lord of Hosts.
This is unacceptable and our constitution must be defended. We have an uphill battle as the liberal athiests are aggressive athiest and use the American Communists and Liberals United, the aclu, as one of their persecutors of the Body of Christ and of conservative viewpoints in America.

162 posted on 09/15/2003 5:49:43 AM PDT by wgeorge2001 ("The truth will set you free.")
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To: strela
What Christians do not have the right to expect is that tax dollars (from Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims and atheists and agnostics and the amoral, etc.) be used to support religious speech solely favorable to Christians in any way.
Christian conservatives, unlike liberals, don't accept or expect the government to pay for our proselytizing or any other thing we pay for ourselves. Christians believe that accepting money from the government is embarassing at best and insulting and degrading at worst, unlike democrats who would accept free rides and overpaid non-working jobs and complaing and or striking whenever possible,never considering the fact that they will drive the government into bankruptsy and the nation into the ground.

You're seeing a whole team of health professionals, aren't you?

You lose.When liberal minded people run out of arguments, they generally attack the person making the argument and not the argument itself.

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164 posted on 09/15/2003 4:20:23 PM PDT by wgeorge2001 ("The truth will set you free.")
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To: strela
strela, I found this article and thought of you immediatly. Here's a link;
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index


Chalk Up ANOTHER God-Given Win Against the ACLU in the Battle for Religious Speech!

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young men and women graduate from our nation’s high schools.

For many, one of the greatest thrills of their lives is standing up before their parents and peers to celebrate their hard work and personal achievement.

Many of these students want to use the occasion of their commencement to publicly give thanks to the One who made it all possible: Almighty God, or their “best friend, Jesus”. Sadly, many are denied their constitutional right to do so because of misguided notions of “the separation of church and state.”

At Norfolk (Nebraska) High School, the graduating seniors voted to have two separate prayers, an invocation and benediction, as part of their commencement ceremony. These prayers were non-sectarian. Two students were chosen to deliver the prayers.

One student who did not participate in the vote told his mother, and they went immediately to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU informed the school superintendent and school board that they would take immediate legal action if the prayers were allowed. At the beginning of the commencement ceremony, the school board president told the assembled senior class, along with the relatives and friends: “With deepest regret from the Board and Administration, and with our most sincere apologies to the Senior Class of 2000, we will need to remove the Invocation and Benediction from today’s graduation ceremonies…we are saddened that it has come to this.”

But one school board member had had enough of the ACLU’s bullying tactics. When he got up to speak, he recited the Lord’s Prayer, without asking anyone to bow their heads or stand, in protest of this unconstitutional censoring of religious speech. The result was that the ACLU and the family filed suit against the two members of the school board. The suit was subsequently dropped against the school board president, but the suit against the other school board member remained. ADF National Litigation Academy trained attorney Jeff Downing provided key legal assistance to his defense.

The result? On August 20, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, ruled that the school board member was privately opposing the school board’s decision when he included the prayer in his remarks, and therefore was engaging in constitutionally protected speech. The ADF-funded victory in Adler v. Duval County School Board (litigated by our allies and friends at Liberty Counsel) was cited repeatedly in the majority opinion!

This is the exact type of case that would have been lost by default if not for the wisdom of our founders in creating the Alliance Defense Fund, and the prayers and support of our ministry friends. Thank you making another victory for religious speech possible!




166 posted on 09/16/2003 5:00:47 AM PDT by wgeorge2001 ("The truth will set you free.")
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To: strela
Do you feel that religious speech is unacceptable?

Nope. (Irrelevant question, but Im happy to provide an answer anyway).

Here is a link: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/article.php?sid=72


And how about this one. Some Missouri liberal athiests are actually disobeying the American Constitustion and the first ammendment of the bill of rights.

Topic: Religious Freedom
Larry Phillips is a social worker with the Missouri Department of Social Services and always had a perfect employment review. When he voiced opposition to his supervisor about licensing individuals with "alternative lifestyles" (i.e. homosexual behavior), as foster parents, he quickly became subject to persecution from his fellow employees. His supervisor wrote a long negative review about Larry which stated that his "religious beliefs were affecting his ability to perform his job effectively" and that he was "too moral."

Larry requested a transfer to another unit and it was granted. However, the supervisor, who no longer had any authority over him, went ahead and submitted the negative review. Larry was eventually fired from the department. With the help of ADF-backed friend and attorney Frank Manion, Larry filed a claim of religious discrimination and harassment against the supervisor and the department. During the initial trial before the U.S. District Court, a deputy attorney general for the state of Missouri argued that an employee's religious beliefs [like these] could be taken into account when making employment decisions. In October 1999, the U.S. District Court ruled in favor of Larry on the discrimination charge. The state immediately appealed to the 8th Circuit Court on the grounds that Larry had failed to establish an adverse employment action and his discrimination claim should fail as a result. In July 2001, the circuit court ruled 3-0 in favor of Larry Phillips. The court said that the supervisor should have known about Larry's religious beliefs and made proper accomodation for them. They added: "...accomodating Phillips' request not to license homosexual couples would have had virtually no effect on his employment duties nor his administration of the division."
167 posted on 09/16/2003 5:23:25 AM PDT by wgeorge2001 ("The truth will set you free.")
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