Posted on 06/02/2004 9:41:22 AM PDT by zechariah
It's another moron moment brought to you by a gubmint hack.
-"The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia also said in a statement: "If the park rules allow people to wade and swim in the river, then they must allow baptisms in the river."
This is so obvious, even the ACLU can't weigh in on the wrong side."-
Unfortunately, the parks are afraid BECAUSE the ACLU is already threatening them to remove religious evidence, monuments, plaques, etc., so the parks' over-reactions to things like this are quite understandable. The ACLU take away, and giveth all in the same breath.
Saw the same thing in Lake Tahoe last summer while on vacation. Sure people stopped and looked. Nobody seemed upset or offended. We thought it was great.
Well, The Master stood off shore, the flock may as well give it a try.
(Good catch)
I'm surprised that after saying the traditional "in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit", that they weren't carted away for "hate speech".
Oh for crying out loud - what is this, Mecca, or the United States? They need a *permit* to have baptisms? It's time for a big fat lawsuit.
That's right - all Christianity must occur in designated Church buildings - otherwise it will infringe upon the public's general welfare.
Just curiously rhetorical...when (not if) we're attacked again, and the country starts singing "God Bless America" again, to which one will they be singing?
Can you imagine how some people would FREAK OUT if they heard a voice from Heaven saying "You've taken me out of your schools, your courtrooms, your laws, your city logos, your parks...everything but your money...and now that you're in trouble, NOW you call on me?"
Now, had they been druids, or muslims, or...............
"We don't want to tread on anybody's First Amendment or constitutional rights,"
Well sir, you may not want to, but you and your ilk are doing a damn bang up job of it.
This PC crap of denying religious groups public access and free speech has now become the religion of the left.
Creeps all, they scream about religious people forcing their beliefs onto others. This while the repressive PC Nazis strive heartily at taking away our freedoms. It is now past passive resistance, it is time to get in their freaken faces and expose them for what they are. "NAZIS" whom wish to impose their beliefs and doctorines upon us all.
How inconsiderate! They should have said they were performing a nude gay wedding ceremony.
I wonder if the "offended" persons were of the Mohammedan persuasion...
Probably.
INTREP - SECULARIZATION OF AMERICA ALERT!
hey....
don't start disparaging the druids...
One step closer to CWII.
All that is not permitted is forbidden, Comrade.
Is your church ATF approved?
How many officials does the park have, anyway? Why don't they just admit it was one uneducated "I'm-in-touch-with-nature" park ranger's assistant who got a bee in her or his bonnet about Gaia being so desecrated? That's my guess. Christians just don't appreciate nature, ya see.
People are shocked that the world hates Christ and his followers. LOL. People don't even want the slightest inference of God to remind them that they are responsible for their actions. Their parents didn't, their government doesn't, who is God... (/sarcasm).
Just think, if it were handled like free trade, some here would just say "get over it, it ain't your religion".
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