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

To: Lane3 who wrote (72866)	8/21/2003 6:09:22 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

(1) Because the one was actively oppressing. It prevented poeople from exercising a freedom. The other is just sitting there. It doesn't force anybody to do anything or not do anything. Any meaning it has is purely in the mind. It is protected speech without any legally enforceable conduct. Nobody can get arrested for not reading the 10 commandments the way they could get arrested for drinking at the wrong fountain. What's wrong with just saying, hey, if you don't want to read those words, don't? Exercise a little self control, peeps. We are in a democracy, and the will of the majority, as long as it doesn't illegally impose on the minority, prevails. Now, the state can't establish religion. And the state can't prohibit the free exercise of religion. But a monument with words on it does neither. Does it? Are you arguing that placing the 10 commandments there forces anybody to worship a certain way? Or prohibits them from worshiping in some other way? Are you making or supporting that argument?