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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (78502)11/2/2003 2:36:58 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
filed suit in local courts for the removal of the crucifix from his 6-year-old son’s classroom in Ofena because of its violation of the constitutional right to equal treatment for different religions.
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Catholicism was no longer designated a “state religion.”
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whether Catholicism, practiced by few, should be granted any special recognition.
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what he calls “psychological discrimination inherent in the display of the cross in public places” giving Catholicism “privileged status.”
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Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, the leader of Rome’s small Jewish community, disagreed that the cross is simply a symbol of cultural identity.
Instead, he said, “We appreciate the positive values that Christians attribute to the cross, like peace and life, but we have had a negative history with the cross and what it represented for us, a sign of oppression and intolerance in the name of religion.
“We respect the fact that the cross joins many people as a symbol of peace, but it is not universal because not all of us share this view.”

Dang, those sound like the same arguments and issues with a few words changed.
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