Posted on 12/01/2005 7:13:41 AM PST by Andyman
A lawsuit against memorial crosses is set to be filed Thursday by a group that feels they violate the separation of church and state.
Three Utah atheists, backed by a national organization based in Texas, are filing suit against the state for allowing crosses to be erected in honor of highway patrol troopers, who have died in the line of duty.
Richard Andrews said, "I feel the same way a Jew might feel if you put a state symbol on a swastika"
According to the UHP Association, a support group for troopers and their families, many fallen troopers' relatives consider the memorial crosses just as important as the tombstones that mark their graves.
Sgt. Todd Royce of the UHP Association told ABC 4 News, "It's a sense of pride, I think. It's a... kind of a sacred feeling."
The atheists suggest the association could honor the troopers with a non-denominational symbol.
You probably love armpit farts too.
How can you claim that allowing crosses is "bullying"? Are you that insecure in your atheism?
The atheists are coming after Christians and Jews, but they're way too cowardly to stand up to the muslims. The only people that do that are...Christians and Jews.
Ironically, if they get reminded now, they may just escape the eternal reminder they're heading for later.
ya know I've had about all I can digest of these POS'...
we lost 10 Marines today and 11 wounded fighting for this country
We're gonna keep the crosses & Stars of David, the Nativity scenes, saying "Merry Christmas" and if I feel like it; I'm gonna tell the 'Rats, Lefties, Liberals, Socialists, Commies ,agnostics and atheists and any other a-hole to go STRAIGHT TO HELL!
and if any swinging Richard doesn't like our history, custom, culture, religions and language maybe they should just pack up and get the hell out of here!
Point, Game, Set, Match!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Your entire argument is idiotic. A cross is a valid marker for any dead person. Do you actually stop and think, "a cross on the side of the road. This must be a religious statement made by a zealot."? I hope not. I think, "someone died here, and someone or some group cared enough to mark his/her passing". I haven't seen any evidence that any crosses were placed against anyone's wishes. And the whole nazi slant just proves how absolutely baseless these morons' claims are.
I agree with the guy who said, "if it offends you so much, look away." After all, these officers died protecting your sorry, worthless ass.
And just so we don't offend the atheists, we promise to bury them face down with no marker.
Crickets...
SovietProfessor does not let facts get in the way of a good rant against religion (well, Christians anyway). Besides, an atheist is yet again trying to impose his views on others, so a distraction was needed by one of his peers.
Atheists have no shame.
Acknowledging it, and not "preventing the free exercise thereof" as spelled out in the Constitution.
This is nothing more than the continuing, relentless campaign by America's God-haters to force everyone to live lives of non-belief like they choose to do.
Only if it's done by way of a law being passed. "Congress shall make no law....."
Thanks for proving my point that being a dollop of pond scum is entirely consistent with being a self-proclaimed 'Christian'.
If the atheists don't mind the troopers being honored in some way, then they should leave it up to the families to choose the symbol. The honor is about the troopers, not about non-related atheists.
If it comes down to the atheists objecting to tax dollars being used, then they can be reimbursed when the rest of us are reimbursed for government funding of NPR, Planned Parenthood and the lawsuit expenses incurred by idiotic lawsuits started by atheists.
Just your humble opinion huh?
Get me an ACLU lawyer, pronto.
ROTFL!
Actually, I believe that the Gottscheer were moved out of the Gottschee/Kocevje area by Hitler. Tito (who was a Croat with some Slovene blood, btw)merely prevented them from returning.
http://www.carniola.org/theglory/2004/07/the_depopulatio.htm
He prevented them from returning by killing every last one of them.
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