Key word is "Public"
Posted 33 weeks 1 day ago byYes the key word is Public. When people of religion would like too put monuments up on public land, be it Chistian, Muslim, Budist, etc. They act like it is their land, not everypersons.
The reason they do this is for the controversy. If Christans really wanted the Ten Commandments to be seen by as many people as they would like. Every church would have it displayed out front, and every person advocating this would have it in their yard.
In 2001, Judge Roy Moore had a 2 ton monument erected in the Alabama Court house with the Ten Commandments on it. This was done in the middle of the night, with no approval. The courts ordered it removed. This led too protests from the so called "Religios Right".
If a Muslim judge had done the same thing with a monument of the Koran. The religios right would of been the first to ask it to be removed.
I don't know anyone that likes other religions pushed on them. This is why public land should be for all the public, not just for the majority.
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I am discusted when religion is not allowed!
Submitted on April 4th, 2008 by PabloLook America was founded on the right of the people to have Religion.
The Founding Fathers and the constitution acknowledge the government is linked to religion in so much as personal worship and choice.
Most atheists and many ignorant judges do not bother to read the constitution or bothered to do so.
It is the people's right to display their religion should they choose to. The laws still link Christianity to the government and to take it out would be to rewrite about a quarter of the jufdicial laws then about ten percent of the constitution of the US.
The problem is not religion in general nor the display of religion on public property. If the will of the people wants it, then it will be.
Its an issue for election which is not subject to the whims of the those who think they are offended.
Honestly, an Atheist can not be offended any more than a common person visiting the Pyramids of Egypt being offend by the display of some past religion. A true atheist does not care.
The rub is that the Government cannot pick on religion over another nor force a religion on anyone. However, the people can display their choice just the same as the founding fathers did when they built the Capital building, White House and Supreme Court.
Since those building have displays of religion on them, then the government has no right to deny the people. But it should be a voted issue. Thus no minority or some fly by night cult cannot simply have one because they want one. No its would have to be a vote of the people which is the way America works.
We are the people who formed a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Thus any action of the government to deny the people their rights no matter where it lays be it in a public school, courthouse property or any other land can not be infringed on without due process. That due process is not by the courts but by election of the people.
Its not right to have one or even 10 atheists say that millions can not practice or display their religion. That is in its core illegal. To put it in an example: A muslim can not do his daily prayers and wear his catif because some Atheist says they are offended by seeing it at some local school that this persons prayers with others of his religion made the atheist uncomfortable. The truth is that to an atheist it should not matter. Thus an offended atheist is not really an atheist but does have form of religion even if they deny it publically or privately.
Public land should be for everybody.
Submitted on April 1st, 2008 by AnonymousSome could argue that it offends because it's just one religion. So they might argue that letting all religions do the same thing would solve the problem. Imagine the confusion of a park with 20 competing religious statues!
However, I am an atheist, so anything religious on public lands offends me.