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Thread #79712   Message #1446507
Posted By: CarolC
29-Mar-05 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
So you also think we should give equal consideration to "the great god Calu," people who believe that cats are gods, people who pray to golden calves, and statues of of multi-bodied animals?

Yes, Martin. The US government is constrained by the US Constitution to not enforce any specific religions. That is the same constitution that protects your right to practice your own religion as you see fit. People who worship cats have the same exact rights under the constitution as you do, whether you like it or not. I don't think, on the subject of religion, you want to be pushing for majority rule in the US. That was tried before, and members of your own religion bore a lot of the brunt of that discrimination.

When I was in the sixth grade, one of the teachers at my school was a very ignorant and also very intolerant woman. When the school held a picnic for the crossing guards and some of the students said they could only have kosher hot dogs and hamburgers at the picnic, that teacher said, "Why do you need special treatment? Why can't you just be like everybody else?"

It was wrong for that teacher to do it, and it's wrong for the US government to do it.