Virginia prayer case is reversed / Wiccan in Chesterfield loses

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  1. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Caution!

    It looks to me like the Supreme Court decided not to grant a writ of certiorari. This means that the Court of Appeals decision will be allowed to stand and that's ALL it means. It does not constitute a Supreme Court opinion or holding on the merits of the claim.
     
    nosborne48, Oct 11, 2005
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  2. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    Re: Wiccan Priestess Loses High Court Appeal

    So how does a policy of favoring Judeo-Christian prayers avoid advancing and even proselytizing for the Jewish and Christian religions?

    How does a policy that forbids non-Judeo-Christian prayers avoid disparaging the excluded non-Judeo-Christian religions?

    My impression is that fundamentalist Christians are like dogs pissing on a fire hydrant, trying to mark the United States as their own privileged territory, and marking the rest of us as outsiders who are welcome here only on their sufferance.

    There's absolutely no way that I will ever acquiesce to second class status in the country of my birth. That's simply non-negotiable.

    This prayer and ten-commandments stuff may just be Southern fundy symbolism, but it's a political litmus-test for me here in California. I could very easily be persuaded to change political allegiances based on this issue.
     
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    BillDayson, Oct 13, 2005
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  3. Charles

    Charles New Member

    Lovely analogy, Bill.
     
    Charles, Oct 14, 2005
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  4. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    analogy

    It WAS good, wasn't it?
     
    nosborne48, Oct 19, 2005
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  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Christian Exodus

    So how does a policy of favoring Judeo-Christian prayers avoid advancing and even proselytizing for the Jewish and Christian religions? How does a policy that forbids non-Judeo-Christian prayers avoid disparaging the excluded non-Judeo-Christian religions?

    It does not. I'm not usually a Noam Chomsky fan, but I do agree with his comment that "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." Similarly, Christians, if you don't believe in freedom of religion for Wiccans, you don't believe in it at all.

    My impression is that fundamentalist Christians are like dogs pissing on a fire hydrant, trying to mark the United States as their own privileged territory, and marking the rest of us as outsiders who are welcome here only on their sufferance. There's absolutely no way that I will ever acquiesce to second class status in the country of my birth. That's simply non-negotiable.

    Yes, a delightful analogy. :) It makes me hope that the Christian Exodus people are successful.

    -=Steve=-
     
    SteveFoerster, Oct 19, 2005
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