so... give the athiest's a bench that says NOBODY LOVES YOU!!!
Posted on 08/02/2005 11:49:31 AM PDT by THE person involved
I am just a citizen trying to raise a question of my elected officials, help keep my school district out of trouble, and prevent my tax dollars being wasted.
Why would this bench be any different than one where it says "Fred loves you."?......There are lots of people named Jesus......
Do you have a direct link?
Thanks
Reckon Jesus is the gardener?
Ahh...got to love the media and the media hacks.
If this was trying to be resolved quietly, Mr Troll, how did the press and Atheists find out about it?
You fit in well at CNN.
That's what I was thinking. They'll leave you alone if you just tell them it's an expression of gay love.
Picking at the scab will make it bleed. You are a scab-picker. your CNN bias has not left you and you knew that the ACLU and other Communist organizations would bear this cross for you. ALL PUN INTENDED.
And you come here to "explain" yourself?
Was the bench placed on the school grounds by an act of congress? No.
Does the bench compel anyone to subscribe to a particular religious belief? No.
Was the content of the message developed and placed on the bench and funded by a party other than the school and/or school district? Yes.
Are other benches allowed on the school grounds with other messages, with content that is developed by someone other than the school and/or school district? Yes.
Welcome to Free Republic.
Any future challenge to the bench, he said, could be left to constitutional experts.
He got it going by providing the needed publicity to bring it to the attention of the activists, now it's up to someone else to actually bring suit.
Must be a satisfying job to be a paragon of "moral clarity" and a do-gooder eager to protect us from any possible harm that an acknowledgement of religiosity might cause.
Why don't you do some real good and question liberal judges that keep putting pedophiles on the strrets to abuse and mutilate our kids? Or don't you think that they are as potentially harmful as a "Jesus Love You" statement?
asswipe
"I am just a citizen trying to raise a question of my elected officials, help keep my school district out of trouble, and prevent my tax dollars being wasted."
Signing in from Roswell, Georgia, I'd appreciate it if you'd find something else to do and quit wasting my state tax dollars - and our time.
now, now, be nice. :~)
He's gonna get what's due him anyway.
so... give the athiest's a bench that says NOBODY LOVES YOU!!!
BS
"What if the Atlanta Freethought Society wanted to put up a bench that said, 'There is no God?'" Buckner added
That would be intolerant. A bench that says "Jesus loves you" does not imply anything against anyone.
how sad for all of you that when something doesn't fit into your preconceptions that you can't just admit you might have been a tad offbase.
but you are welcome to join my family at church and maybe you would find out how offbase you are.
oh...and I don't work at cnn...sorry about that one too
haven't for years.
oh...and I'm not a liberal, not an ACLU member..not...sorry...but I voted for our President.
I don't know why so many of you are so angry at a taxpayer raising a legitimate issue to an elected representative...something the school board is quoted as saying they appreciated.
it seems to me people on this board raise questions to and about elected officials and public policy all the time.
but if it makes you feel better to loose your anger on me, it's your right.
Mr. Bernknopf, I have years of experience in the PTA for two Atlanta schools. If you really wanted to help your school district, you could work to insure the playgrounds are safe, the bathrooms are clean, the PTA is supported.
Why, you could even volunteer in the library or in the office to relieve the teachers who, I am sure, work very hard for the little money they earn.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Is a religion being singled out by government? No? You say it was a private individual? Then what's the problem?
You just know he is a transplant or a halfback.
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