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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (77766)4/11/2000 2:49:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
The question, in a democracy, is whether or not the injury to the minority is sufficient to abrogate the right of the majority. The fact of a benediction, especially on the customary rotating basis, is so far from an establishment of religion, so obviously a concession to community custom, that it seems an inadequate reason to make the majority pay......



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (77766)4/11/2000 2:51:00 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
<<Mandating religious behavior by majority vote is a seductive argument, but I believe it remains a violation of the Bill of Rights.>> So right. However, there is no mandate to pray. What you are pushing for as a mandate is to forbid prayer. Which is definitely mandating religious behavior and a violation of the Bill of Rights.


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