The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9687 Message #1696469
Posted By: Janice in NJ
17-Mar-06 - 05:27 PM
Thread Name: St. Paddy's Day greeting
Subject: RE: St. Paddy's Day greeting
Yes, a Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all!!!!
And this greeting comes from an avowed Free Thinker. Let's never forget the words of our nation's Proclamation of April 24, 1916: The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Cherishing all of the nation equally means exactly what it says: Protestant as well as Catholic (and vice versa), Pagan as well as Christian, Free Thinker as well as believer, lesbian and gay as well as straight, traveller as well as domiciled. Let's practice that ideal in deed as well as in word.
Now let's party!