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Come on, we all know the Religious Right doesn't really believe in religious equality. Of course they're hypocrites!
-- Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1743 - 1790
Where are your arguments against what they did? You just have an opinion.
Dont kill and dont steal are the only 'commandments' that are in our laws.
It's a phrase like "you religious bigots" an inherently bigoted remark?
Well except for those first five. Nothing in the constitution about half of the 10.
Keep grasping.
Isn't a phrase like "you religious bigots" an inherently bigoted remark?
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were not religion in it."
-John Adams
"I am not a member of any Christian church."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Lighthouses are more useful than churches."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
-Thomas Jefferson
They used "respect an establishment".
People who believe in Summan have not been impeded in there ability to establish or practice their religion or even talk about it or pubh iinformation about it.
This about putting up a Monument in a park. Which is an action and a thing.
Actions/things are not protected in the constitution.
They are not speech without twisting the constitution to have no meaning at all.
As such, it should be left up to the community to decide,
Any power NOT given to a higher level must necessarily fall to the lowest level of governance.
RE: ROBERT OH:
Very deceptive, taking quotes out of context to make point. A typical liberal tactic.
Nah, no promotion of one particular religion over all others there.
Just be honest. If you are going to claim that there is freedom of religion (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), but that the US is a "christian" country, just come right out and say it, "NO other religions are wanted". Come on, you KNOW you want to.
the 7 aphorisms are not offensive, but a possible argument is that allowing this group's monument would mean they'd have to allow any group's monument, even from a group with extremely offensive beliefs, but as long monuments are required to be paid for with private dollars and do not contain offensive content, there should be no future issue either
Along with this, I think we should also allow graffiti as freedom of speech (facetiously said, of course)! In many places graffiti parks have been opened to allow this this type of freedom of expression, but they have their own place and purpose. If this group wants to express their religious beliefs, they have the option to create their own park with it's own purpose that no one else can touch. Is this really a case of freedom of speech or trying to prove a point, pitting religion against religion, thereby wasting taxpayer's money! People, I really find it hard to believe that we are wasting brain cells on this.
�We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We�ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity�to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.�
James Madison, 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia
� The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.�
John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61
�All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery
and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.�
Noah Webster. History. p. 339
Dear Mr. MLDutch, it is a lie to say no other religions are wanted. Other religions are honored guests in this great land which gives all people freedom of religion. Atheism is a religion by definition. There really is no absence of religion. Why should we change our laws to be sponsored by your faith?
It's that simple.
John Quincy Adams
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" �Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--October 11, 1798
Charles Carroll - signer of the Declaration of Independence | Portrait of Charles Carroll
" Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."
[Source: To James McHenry on November 4, 1800.]
Benjamin Franklin: | Portrait of Ben Franklin
� God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel� �Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech
In Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
Nuff said.
Let's get government back to providing services and out of these silly disputes. Parks are for recreation. We can get the commandments at church.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . ."
It's just beyond me how this could be a First Amendment argument. Congress has passed no law establishing any religion as the city religion of Pleasant Grove or prohibiting free exercise of any religion within Pleasant Grove. Congress is not even involved in this issue.
I don't have any particular problem with posting 7 Aphorisms in the park, so long as they're not X-rated or otherwise inappropriate. Let them worship how, where, or what they may. But how did park decorations the city park of little, itty-bitty Pleasant Grove become a matter of national or Constitutional import?
What's next, the teeter-totter? The monkey bars?
Why do you think this Counntry is going down the sewer?
Name calling is childish remarks
The best name I know we have a Country full of BIGGOTS
One being whom brought this to light!
How sick?
1. SUMMUM is MIND, thought; the universe is a mental creation.
2. As above, so below; as below, so above.
3. Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.
4. Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.
5. Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.
6. Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of Destiny.
7. Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all levels. {L.A. Times} Good Stuff hey!
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