Re: No surprise from the Ninth Circus
- From: stephenj <sjarok@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:28:52 -0500
Ralph Kennedy wrote:
stephenj <sjarok@xxxxxxx> writes:
Surely if those kinds of things violate A1 than "under God" in the pledge does as well, as does "in god we trust" on our currency,
*That* one is an even more blatant violation than the pledge, since it is in our faces orders of magnitude more.
If our currency said, "In Allah We Trust," or "In Buddah We Trust," or "In The Earth Goddess We Trust," Christians would be howling bloody murder.
Religious statements do not belong on our
currency. The fact that Christians and Jews form
a majority in this country does not magically
negate this principle and make something wrong,
right.
Nor does something being "wrong" mean that it is unconstitutional. Since the framers of A1 clearly didn't mean for it to be construed so as to outlaw "god we trust" on the currency, etc. those things don't violate A1.
Unless of course we decide to just make stuff up about what A1 means.
-- Was the Order to Slay given because of the Sign of the Goat found on the ancient Roman crypt beneath the cathedral, or because the Dark Man of the Haute Vienne Coven spoke the Three Words? .
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