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Originally posted by whomod:
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Originally posted by Rob Kamphausen:


court houses, schools, pledges ... they're all being de-godded. by the time i have kids, the dollar won't mention god. ... hell(!!), by the time my kids have kids, churches wont mention god.
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.

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all these things are ridiculous steps, increasingly inching towards a world that can not offend anyone. pc phrases, leaders, tv shows, tshirts, etc.

how can you have "freedom of religion," then be told how to have it? the "church and state" argument, as far as i know, doesn't hold up, cuz he wasn't forcing the commandments upon anyone anymore than his driving a corolla to the court parking lot was forcing toyota on anyone.
It's not about trying to drive God away from America. The day that churches are told what to say is the day you no longer have any actual freedom. No one is going after any churches here people!
Again, unless we want to become a theocracy, no one is saying that what is said or displayed in a church will be taken away. However, a government building that is there for people of all faiths or no faith for that matter is not the place to make a stand of your particular beleif.

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however...

all that said, the bottom line is, if you're an employee, and your boss says to do something... thems the breaks.

if he (or she or they) says no god statues, no bicycle shorts, no eyebrow piercing, no sex changes, no yellow paper usage, or no red sox fans... you have a choice: fall in line or move on.

or, if you want to have yer cake and eat it too, you have to go about things via the proper channels (discussing it, getting a lawyer, awaiting a trial judgement, whatever). if he didn't do that (as a judge, no less) then he's in the wrong, regardless of what his cause is.
Well, it's not so much his boss saying so but the law saying so.

I just saw the good judge on CNN saying that he's being persecuted for his faith. [yuh huh]

No, he's being 'persecuted ' for being the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and not being able to understand the concept of seperation of church and state.

Still, from looking at some of the pollls out there, most of the population of Alabama can't understand the Constitution either so it bodes well for him if he seeks higher office there.

It's amazing how we can criticize places like Afghanistan for having theocracies that impose the majority religion on everyone whether they like it or not and then not see the connection to what all these activist "christians" in the moral majority want for America.
That's actually Representative Republic...