Posted on 07/21/2013 10:56:02 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
An atheist group that is known for targeting supposed violations of the separation between church and state recently protested a Holocaust memorial because the monument plans to feature a Star of David.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, or FFRF, has stated its opposition to the proposed Ohio Statehouse Holocaust memorial because its leaders believe that including the religious symbol would create "legal precedent."
The co-presidents of the FFRF, Don Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, wrote a letter to Richard Finan, chair of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board about the proposed memorial, The Blaze reported.
“Permitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol ... would create the legal precedent, for instance, to place an equally large or larger permanent Latin cross on Capitol grounds," they wrote. The group maintains that they have an issue with including the star because it is associated with Judaism but have no problem with a Holocaust museum at the capitol.
“The monument could resemble numerous powerful war memorials across the U.S. which do not use any sectarian images, including the national World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial,” the letter continued. “Each is secular in nature and without religious reference, which offends no one and is respected by all.”
The architect who is involved with the project, Daniel Libeskind, purposefully included the star because he says that “one cannot separate the Holocaust from the star.”
Despite the FFRF’s intense opposition, the design was approved.
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Atheists chicks are freaks....
We should tear down the REVEREND Martin Luther Chung (Made in China) statue too, then.
These people truly are idiots.
Not much else to say.
In addition, the low information voter does not know about the “...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....” clause either.
Hmm, I’m thinking a circle with some kind of rainbow on it.
I suspect that these atheist supremacists supported Hitler’s goals of ridding the world of religious observers (if not his methods).
Yes, an attempt to rid the world of religion, one sect at a time.
A plain black dot?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Whatever it is, it can't be spelled.
“If they had a badge for atheists like they did for the Jews I wonder what it would have looked like?”
It was a red triangle, actually (for communist).
“So what does an atheist woman scream out during sex?”
Not sure what she says during, but afterwards, she’s almost certain to scream out “rape!”
Funny you should say that- the founders of FFRF were also members of the group Zero Population Growth. They're in rebellion to one of God's earliest instructions- to be fruitful and multiply.
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