Candidate Friedman vows declawing ban

-L. wrote:

WHY does there "need" to be a separation of church and state,
again?
That is found nowhere in the Constitution and in fact, the 1st
Amendment to that document guarantees all of us the Freedom OF
Religion, not the freedom FROM religion.

*Oh Sweet Cream of Jesus over Noodles! Freedom OF religion includes
freedom FROM religion. Atheism is a valid belief system that differs
from Christianity ONLY because it rejects one more religion than
Christianity does (that *being* Christianity!)

Perhaps a history lesson is in store for you. The first amendment
guarantees individuals the right to practice their religion. It does
not guarantee that you will never be exposed to other individuals
practicing their religion. If you want to be an atheist, I have no
problem with that. There's much about the natural world, that you
cannot explain, but that's a whole other subject!


There is nothing wrong with
prayer in schools, it doesn't cause anybody bodily harm.

There is *everything* wrong with prayer in public schools. I pay for
those schools. Keep your Bible out of my school. besides, I can
give
you oodles of examples of people being harmed by religion. If you
want
to pray, do it in your private school.

As long as public dollars are funding the failing government schools,
then there will be things allowed that not EVERYBODY will agree with.
You still haven't listed one, single thing that is bad about prayer in
school...other than you don't like it. That's not good enough. As for
people being harmed by religion, I'll bet you can only point to
extreme, religious zealots. The world is full of whackjobs, you know.
(Some of whom frequent this ng)




There is
nothing wrong with mentioning Christmas in public, there is nothing
wrong with displaying a menorah or a nativity scene in public on
public
property. It's called PUBLIC property for a reason.

Yep. And so you have to give the same rights to the Satanists, the
KKK
and anyone else who wants to display anything they deem a religious
artifact. Live sacrifice of animals - yep, that has to be allowed as
well. The "taking" a virgin by a religious leader - yep, that has to
be allwed as well. Go ahead and put up your cross and I can
guarantee
you will start a squaking when the Satanists start up their public
display.

You can't just "make up" your own religion. And you can't break
existing laws (animal torture, murder, etc.) to justify your bad
behavior. Next?

There are a lot more Christians than there are people who worship
Satan, and THANK GOD for that...wouldn't you agree?! (a little mention
to the Almighty, there....just to tick you off and demonstrate the
freedoms that I have in this country) And no, that didn't harm
anybody!