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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.220120.10855@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:01:20 GMT
- References: <92321.34354.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <Bxtz1o.8DE@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <YOUNG.92Nov17132105@ssdd475a.erim.org>
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- In article <YOUNG.92Nov17132105@ssdd475a.erim.org> young@ssdd475a.erim.org (Peter Young) writes:
- >In article <Bxtz1o.8DE@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
- >
- >> Let me make sure I hear you right. Are you saying that judges and legislators
- >> who make decisions that, in some manner, infringe on someone's religious
- >> rights are wrong?
- >>
- >> Like court decisions to restrict prayer in public places?
- >>
- >> - greg
- >
- >Now there you go again. I have never heard of a decision to restrict
- >prayer in public places. The state is not permitted to display
- >religious icons and imagery. The state cannot mandate (good word,
- >eh?) a time for prayer without violating the 1st amendment. The state
- >cannot restrict the exercise of religion, with a few noted exceptions,
- >without violating the 1st. Notice that these things all deal with
- >what the state cannot do.
- >
- >Oops. I forgot. The state doesn't allow burnt offerings to the god
- >of Winston-Salem in public places. My mistake :-). IMHO.
- >
- >--
- >Peter Young
- >young@erim.org
-
- Wrong again Peter! A group of christians was prohibited from praying
- silently on a public sidewalk in Atlanta. The case was appealed by
- Jay Sekulow and is on its way to the Supreme Court.
-
- And before you ask, No the christians were not being disruptive, they
- were closing their eyes, bowing their heads and praying silently; three
- of them were within 50ft of an abortion clinic.
-
- Ted
-
- --
- "We will bury you! We will bury you! We will bury you!"
- - some ex-Soviet leader
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