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

To: Lane3 who wrote (51937)	6/26/2002 9:37:27 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I think anyone secular or religious who is protected can provide much needed balance for someone that deviant- I hate to see them with NO ONE to talk to I don't really care why the person they talk to gets the privilege, I just think it is useful for someone somewhere to have that privilege- my answer has nothing to do with religion, it is purely based on what I consider useful

To: Lane3 who wrote (51937)	6/27/2002 9:05:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I had to laugh when I read the reaction to the ruling. Did you see: "My reading of the stelliscript [majority ruling] suggests that upon Newdow's theory of our Constitution, accepted by my colleagues today, we will soon find ourselves prohibited from using our album of patriotic songs in many public settings," Fernandez wrote. "'God Bless America' and 'America the Beautiful' will be gone for sure, and while use of the first and second stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner will still be permissible, we will be precluded from straying into the third. And currency beware!" All for the best if we do not sing those songs. I won't sing them in my class. God Bless America? Um....why should we be invoking a deity in school? What if the Atheists want to sing "God cannot bless America because there isn't one, so let's all do our best for America" in school? Can you imagine the tolerance for that? I'm darn sure Christians would not want to sing songs which stated there was no God, so it is beyond my understanding why they don't get what an encroachment it is to have little children invoking God (or being forced to look very very separate) when their families do not believe in God. It is interesting though. You'd think congress had no more pressing issue that this one.