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To: FredFlash
Your whole concept of religious liberty revolves around government officials having the authority to pass out religious advice. Why?

That is not my concept at all. What is my concept is that the government can not squash religion. Government consumes some 40% of the GDP. Between government property, government employees, government contracts there is government everywhere. What this extreme separation of church and state does is oppress religious expression in most public forums. People who work for the government lose their religious freedom, people who contract with the government lose their religious freedom, people who are on government property lose their religious freedom. Under the the extreme separation of church and state doctrine rules, people's expression of religion can be only done at home and at church, and even the church is under the government's thumb. What happened to the part where the government is not suppose to make laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion? That is what I want to protect and the part you seem to have little concern about.

318 posted on 01/17/2006 10:55:08 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Always Right

OK Slick – Show me a well documented case of extreme separation where the government oppresses religious expression in a public forum; but if it turns out that the religious expression is actually that of the government (not if an individual) or if the religious expression is actually a case of religious advice being issued with government authority, then forget about it. Just take it over to the Synagogue of Satan and show it to the Devil because that is where those types of ideas come from.


322 posted on 01/17/2006 12:01:03 PM PST by FredFlash
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To: Always Right
OK Compadre – Show me a well-documented case of separation where people who work for the government lose their religious freedom; but if it turns out that what you are trying to fob off on me a case of a government official using his authority to issue religious advice, then forget about it. Just show it to Old Scratch cause that’s where that sort of mischief comes from.
323 posted on 01/17/2006 12:10:58 PM PST by FredFlash
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To: Always Right

You believe in “no law prohibiting the fee exercise of the authority of the government to issue religious advice.”


327 posted on 01/17/2006 12:19:49 PM PST by FredFlash
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