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

To: epicure who wrote (73050)	8/22/2003 11:52:50 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, I quoted someone referring to Barry Lynn (from People for the American Way) and associates, in their exposition of Lemon. So really, I was using someone who basically agrees with the Court (i.e. Lynn), and an expert in such jurisprudence, to boot.......

To: epicure who wrote (73050)	8/22/2003 12:24:35 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm wondering what the reaction would be to a monument of the Communist Manifesto, KKK oaths, images of lynched people or tenets of Aum Shinriko in some courtroom? This is just silly and the various Christian religious factions of the U.S. have gotten away with it so long that a repeated injustice against others is elevated to some sort of constitutional right. I see parallels between this and the pre-13th Amendment treatment of ethnic minorities. "We've always done" it is a pretty lame excuse, legally and morally speaking. Six or seven of the 10 Commandments aren't bad ideas, but a secular treatment in the form of a monument is not appropriate in a government court.