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Thread #79712   Message #1454549
Posted By: CarolC
07-Apr-05 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
After all this, it finally comes out that the court ruled in your favor?!

So what? It should never have gone to court in the first place. And the fact that it was is discriminatory. Have you ever been dragged through the courts for months on end with all of the attendant financial and personal costs? To do it to one person, specifically because that person is not a Christian, while not doing it to any of the families who were Christian is discrimination as well as an abuse of power.

And that the lawyer wasn't randomly picking on you for your lack of Xtianity?

Yes he was. He would never have done it had I been a Christian. The fact that I wasn't a Christian was the deciding factor in his decision to take me to court for home schooling, and it was his stated reason for his premise that I shouldn't be allowed to home school my son.

And yet your whole premise is that you can't get a fair shake from our courts because there's a 10 Commandments display somewhere in Alabama? They ruled in your favor!

I did most certainly not get a fair shake. A fair shake would have been not being subjected to the personal and financial costs of being dragged through the courts for months on end, and all of the other bullshit that comes with being taken to court, including the trauma to my son during that whole process. And the 10 commandments being displayed in courts is just one example of the kinds of discrimination that people experience because of fundamentalist Christians. It's a symptom of the mindset that causes discrimination and abuses of power that happen quite often all over this country. Remove any trappings of government favoring one religion over others and it becomes a little less easy for these kinds of things to happen in the first place. And this happened in the state of Maryland.