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To: Rock_nj who wrote (6834)	6/3/2004 9:19:43 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 20039

I imagine the Libertarians are weary of the influence the church has on the state. In general, yes - but that raises an interesting point. It's true that we don't want any particular religion to become the philosophical template where the legislative, etc., processes are concerned. However, municipal decrees that have prohibited groups from putting religious icons on public ("public" being the operant term) property - lawns of town halls, in parks, etc. - have recently been challenged by Libertarians on similar grounds: why can't, or shouldn't, members of a community display their particular religious icons on public property? To prohibit such displays seems equally akin to state coercion as to formulate laws predicated exclusively on Christian (or other) religious doctrine(s). Most of us - if forced to choose - would far prefer people organizing their personal affairs and communities around their private religious (or, better yet, spiritual) beliefs over those decreed by a political class or state. LPS5