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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
- Message-ID: <1686@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 15:25:50 GMT
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- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- : Bill Anderson writes:
- :
- : >Dave Bernard states that governments should display religious
- : >symbols because this is a democracy, and "plurality rules".
- :
- : >The problem with this is, of course, that the United States
- : >Constitution was designed specifically to put limits on
- : >majority rule- and one of those limits is contained in the
- : >first amendment
- :
- : Not that governments SHOULD display religious symbols, but should
- : PERMIT the display of religious symbols on public property. The
- : property may be owned by the "government," but all that means is
- : the property is owned by the people. Why can't people occasionally
- : display their religious symbols on their own property? THis is permitted
- : by the Constitution... note that the Bill of Rights was not enacted to
- : limit *majority rule*... rather, it was enacted specifically to limit the
- : powers of the *government.* It says that government won't interfere with
- : religious efforts, so why should it interfere with the occasional wish of
- : the people to display these symbols on otherwise unused government- er,
- : public property?
- :
- : Dave
-
- No problem with it, Dave- so long as no governmental body is
- involved, and so long as anybody who wants to is allowed to
- do the same. If you're prepared to accept the prospect of a
- bunch of citizens who just happen to worship the devil getting
- together to put an inverted pentagram on public property, then
- we have no argument.
- As for the B of R- it most certainly was enacted to limit
- majority rule, since the government is an instrument of the
- majority, in theory.
-
- Bill
-