There was an interesting article in the paper today titled:
WARREN REFUSES ANTI-FAITH DISPLAY…Resident’s request denied for a city hall
table near prayer site. Warren is a small city in the Detroit Metro area.
We are all aware at the continuing battle to keep religion
out of politics as many in this country defy our First Amendment in our
Constitution that prohibits government from endorsing any religion.
In the past, government bodies throughout the country endorsed
Christian symbols (10 Commandments in courthouses) that were ruled
unconstitutional because those symbols showed our government endorsing
Christianity over all other faiths.
Now government bodies must allow all religions access to its
public spaces and not just a specific religion.
Things are a little different in the Warren case since the
person asking for a competing space next to the prayer station (which accommodates
all religions) is a member of FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION which is
basically an anti-religious organization.
I am a little conflicted here. If the group was an atheist
group which is a competing “belief system” I would say that they have a right
to a table next to the prayer table where people do proselytize (try to get
people to join their religious group)…but here we are talking about an
anti-religious group.
The Freedom from Religion group usually uses the slogan
REASON OVER SUPERSTITION and if they were promoting that as a belief system, it
would make them easier to accept next to prayer stations.
The underlying fact is that governments should not be
promoting religions (any religions) on their public property and the Freedom
from Religion is just challenging that and that is a good thing…we need to keep
all government institutions free from any religious affiliation…that is the law
and if you don’t obey it, you will be slammed and should be slammed hard…no
room for ignorance anymore.
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