Posted on 08/05/2009 8:36:55 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
New York, NY, August 4, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a "sham transaction" and prohibit a prominent religious display on public land. In an amicus brief submitted to the Court in Salazar v. Buono, ADL and a coalition of civil rights groups also emphasized the importance of allowing Americans access to courts to challenge violations of the First Amendment.
Marvin D. Nathan, ADL Civil Rights Committee Chair, issued the following statement:
(Excerpt) Read more at adl.org ...
If you allow one religious symbol, you have to allow them all.
How about footbaths in public areas?
They should be on the terrorist watch list along with Morris Dees and his phony SPLC!
Great use of resources to fulfill the ADL mission.
I guess public practice of Christianity is ipso facto "hatred, prejudice and bigotry" according to the ADL.
“These people” (yes, “they”) have been attacking the foundations of this country for a very long time, with great success.
None of “them” are conservative in any real way, and can only continue to harm “us.”
Why?
I just want to say, for myself, that the ADL is full of crap on this. As I approach my 50th birthday, I have lived long enough in this country to recognize its Judeo-Christian roots and to have a lot of respect for the kind of tolerance that America stands for BECAUSE the founding fathers took their Christianity seriously. For this reason, I respect the desire of Christians to place their symbols in appropriate settings, where they will solemnize important memorials or remember the values that are embodied in certain events in history. I never took these things as exclusionary toward Jews or anyone else.
The left, including the ADL, is so damn intolerant!
I just want to say, for myself, that the ADL is full of crap on this. As I approach my 50th birthday, I have lived long enough in this country to recognize its Judeo-Christian roots and to have a lot of respect for the kind of tolerance that America stands for BECAUSE the founding fathers took their Christianity seriously. For this reason, I respect the desire of Christians to place their symbols in appropriate settings, where they will solemnize important memorials or remember the values that are embodied in certain events in history. I never took these things as exclusionary toward Jews or anyone else.
The left, including the ADL, is so damn intolerant!
If you disagree, who do you think should make the decision as to whether a certain religious symbol should be allowed on public property? A government commission?
It's not exclusionary, as long as you allow any and all religious symbols.
We didn’t seem to have these problems or questions the first 190 years or so from the founding of this country.
With every qeri'at HaTorah, Conservative America dies a little more! (Especially that Red "Genesis" stuff.)
None of “them” are conservative in any real way, and can only continue to harm “us.”
I don't know . . . keeping the Torah for thirty three centuries sounds pretty conservative to me.
The First Amendment can only be violated by Congress. State and local governments may be violating their state constitutions, but every state in the Union could have an official state church and it wouldn't violate the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution.
As Mother Angelica said,
“I’m so tired of you liberal America.”
This is incorrect. Read up on the Lemon test.
State and local governments may be violating their state constitutions...
Yes, it also violates the California Constitution's prohibition on religious preference (Art. 1 Sec. 4).
You’re right, of course. That’s why all the crosses should be removed from Arlington Cemetary; certainly Mr. Foxman is offended by the sight of the final resting place of so many religious American heros.
What if someone wanted to erect a giant Wiccan symbol as a memorial?
Who gets to make that decision?
The First Amendment can only be violated by Congress.
This is incorrect. Read up on the Lemon test.
No it is not incorrect. At the time the First Amendment was adopted some states had official religious establishments and it didn't affect them in the least. Furthermore the First Amendment begins with the words "Congress shall make no law." Has Congress made a law? Then the First Amendment has not been violated.
But if I were you I'd stop fixating on mere symbols and look at the creeping Theocracy itself! Did you know that murder and theft, two no-no's according to an obscure Semitic superstition, are actually against the law in many places? No wonder some people want to legislate against homosexuality! I advise you to begin a campaign to overturn these bizarre cultic artifacts at once!
What if someone wanted to erect a giant Wiccan symbol as a memorial?
Who gets to make that decision?
Let's see, I'm a Noachide Theocrat who rejects "freedom of religion" in principle . . . how about the Noachide courts that will shortly be formed?
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