Subj : SEPARATION AN INSULT
To   : BOB KLAHN
From : JOHN FITZGERALD
Date : Tue Jun 28 2005 08:12 pm

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JF>                    HERE RESTS IN
                       HONORED GLORY
                        AN AMERICAN
                       SOLDIER  KNOWN
                        BUT TO GOD
 
        Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
        Veterans Memorial Park on government property, paid
        for by tax dollars.
 
BK>>    Literary excess.
 
JF>    'Yes, how very 'excessive' of them...   Of all the nerve!'
 
BK>     Uh...literary excesss is not a capital crime.

  That's right, Bob, it isn't but it's sort of funny to watch ALCU types 
carry on like it is.




BK>   Probably unconstitutional. Who cares?
 
JF>   It seems you did, up until the point the bottom
      fell out of your debate, weeks ago...
 
BK>   No, I really didn't. Nor did I care about "in God we trust". 
      Nor "One Nation, under God." Though they are a bit much.

  If anything is '"a bit much", it's the 'outrage' of the ACLU over this
sort of thing.

 

JF>    ...as you never did show one law, made by ANY level 
       of government, that favored one religion 
       while denying others.
 
BK>  Maybe because the constitution doesn't specify that.

  Maybe you've forgotten about the 1st Amendment all over again.

 

JF>  And you never gave on  example of anyone getting 
     hurt or anyone whose rights were being 
     denied to them.
 
BK>  Actually, that happens all the time. 

  Not by anything you've shown thus far.


BK>   Whenever anyone hasreligion imposed on them by 
      govt action that happens. 

  You have yet to show where the government has mposed a religion 
on anyone.

BK>  It happened at a high school graduation here in 
     this area a couple weeks ago.  The Validictorian 
     included praise of Methodist philosophy in 
     his speech. That is imposing his particular
     religion on everyone else. 

  No, he was expressing his own belief.  To impose it he would have to
use some sort of force, legal, or otherwise, to make people abide by it.
And you have yet to provide any such example of this ever happening.



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