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To: truedog who wrote (3266)	6/21/1999 1:14:00 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

<< If using public money to put these up is an issue, I am sure there are many individuals that would be happy to pay for a few and hang them themselves. >> That's fine as long as they also pay for the land and buildings and books and teachers and maintenance. Then it's a private school and they can do what they want. Otherwise they are using government property to promote their religious views and that's a violation of the First Amendment.

To: truedog who wrote (3266)	6/21/1999 6:29:00 AM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

truedog, I used American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition. In order to communicate, people need to agree on definitions of words. Statues can come in variant sizes, this one could be the size of a teakettle if that makes a difference. BTW, a statue of buddha is not by any stretch of the imagination 'secular'. "If using public money to put these up is an issue, I am sure there are many individuals that would be happy to pay for a few and hang them themselves." To me it is a matter of respect for different belief structures. Not everyone believes that your god is the only god, or the true god. Barb