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Originally posted by whomod:
court houses and public schools shouldn't be in the religion buisness in the 1st place. That is unless you want a theocracy instead of a representative democracy.
Representative of the vociferous few who won't stop whining until they've gotten rid of everything that might offend them? :lol: (Not really referring to you, whomod - I've gotten in more arguments with you than I care to have already.)

The vast majority of people I know - hell, most atheists I know, which is quite a few - don't really care about the public display of 'religious symbology' anyway. To me, it's a political football. It's yet another 'hot issue' [yuh huh] used to divide people. Politicos use it to try and turn anyone with even the slightest conviction in either direction into that much more cannon fodder to be used in the battles between political parties and interest groups who only ultimately care about getting the votes (really, the money) they're after anyway. It's only an issue because some folks with lots of money and nothing better to do decided to go after 'violators' of some obscure phrase that only appears in Constitutional commentary anyway... and then some more people who didn't agree, who had lots of money and nothing better to do, decided to fight 'em to the last man.

Keep in mind the phrase separation of church and state does not occur at any point in the words of the Constitution itself.

Just a thought.