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To: FormerLib; Modernman
Modernman posted:
All they have to do is, over time, allow different religious groups to open different sessions of the town board meetings.

Then you posted:

There is nothing in this article to show that they are not doing that, only that they might not be doing so for every group that believes they should be represented according to said group's timetable.

Nothing in the article? You're just flat-out wrong there.

Read it again, specifically the second paragraph:

"Cynthia Simpson was turned down in 2002 when she asked the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors to add her name to the list of people who customarily open the board's meetings with a religious invocation."

She didn't ask for them to work on her timetable. She didn't ask for special treatment. She only asked to be added to the rotation. They denied the request because they don't like her religion.

Then again, it appears that you might have skipped the 6th paragraph as well:

"County officials said they had the right to limit the prayers to Judeo-Christian beliefs and religions based on a single god."

The article clearly shows that they are not allowing different religious groups to open different sessions of the town board meetings.

The Board thinks it's perfectly fine to allow certain religions access to the public meetings. They're wrong there, as well.

183 posted on 08/11/2005 7:34:19 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

You know, one of these days people are going to read some history and understand exactly what an establishment of religion actually is.

Hint, it is NOT preferential treatment of one religion over another.

As a free people, we are fully entitled to prefer one religion over another and expressly endorse that preference in law through our elected representatives with the following restrictions:

1. We may NOT restrict the reasonable worship of other faiths (Not offering a prayer in a county meeting is not restricting worship, allowing human sacrifice is not reasonable worship).

2. We may NOT establish our preferred religion as an official STATE religion (See the Anglican church in England, Lutheran church in Germany and Wahabbi Islam in Saudi Arabia for examples.)

3. We may NOT require a religious TEST to hold office, although the people are free to practice religious DISCRIMINATION in who they will vote for.

That's it.


186 posted on 08/11/2005 7:44:22 AM PDT by frgoff
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