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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 03:25:06 GMT
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lar@NOSPAMvoyager.net
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Bill Farkas wrote:
> I will state yet again, they currently are on the
> wall of the Supreme Court and have no effect on what takes place there.
I've not been there, so I can't say what the circumstances are. But if
they're posted in a way that implies primacy, rather than as one of many
examples of laws, that's wrong.
> As I said above, I've never advocated that. I'm simply speaking to the matter
> of benignly putting them on public display as a tribute to their contribution
> to our way of life.
Feel free to do so on your private property, but there's a reason for
the separation of church and state being in the constitution.
> There is no harm in that in a country of religious freedom,
> and especially freedom of speech. Posting them does not impose any penalty if
> they are not adhered to.
So why do it?
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| (...) And my point is only this, don't read anything else into it: If this one example of historic law had a major influence, where others didn't, I don't think it's wrong. The constitution forbids legislating in favor of or against any religion - (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) fold (...) I was speaking about the posting of them in general, not necessarily in schools, and certainly not about the teaching or preaching of them. Besides, their from Judaism and I'm not Jewish. (...) founding (...) It doesn't remain, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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