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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (28954)	9/22/2001 3:12:59 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

#reply-15102911 Even in self-preservation of his own life Frederick believes it is wrong to impose his values on certain others and I suspect many do.

To: Greg or e who wrote (28954)	9/22/2001 6:52:10 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Perhaps you and Mars could get together and fly a plane into my house? That would fix em. How does flying a plane into a house "fix a fool"? And why would it be MY responsibility or desire? I believe in your right to believe anything you wish. And I don't wish your equality as a human being to be diminished in society through any bias against your religion being exercised by your fellow citizens through legislative, judicial, or policy arms of the governing institutions. I don't want OUR government to support your religion, and I don't want it to support mine. Why don't you smell the air and open your eyes. The evidence is all around you. Now seriously: Do you really believe that other citizens are entitled to less religious freedom than you, and that your beliefs ought to be masturbated by the state just because they are yours? Really? "Christianity is not established by law, and the genius of our institutions requires that the Church and the State should be kept separate....The state confesses its incompetency to judge spiritual matters between men or between man and his maker ... spiritual matters are exclusively in the hands of teachers of religion." --U. S. Supreme Court, Melvin v. Easley "The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect" --U. S. Supreme Court, Watson v. Jones, 1872 "The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion." --John Paul Stevens, majority opinion, U. S. Supreme Court