In addition, if they are common sense, they do not require the weight and bias of a subset of religions to enforce or even encourage them. Why not put up posters with truisms on them from philosophers or poets ? Why something that is so inextricably linked to so small a segment of the world's religious legacies? It is like insisting on teaching only from philosophical texts by German thinkers, or left-handed writers.

Why not quotes from the Koran, the Tao-te-Ching, or the Upanishads, then? Why be so bloody narrow minded about our public spaces when we pretend to stand for a new standard of freedom for all men (the generic sense, not the gendered sense). This is not supposed to be a nation of Christians, it is supposed to be a nation of human beings of ANY religion. What part of the word ANY don't you understand?

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