Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Devine, James
I wrote: > > Moore can be Christian, but he can't foist his religion on > the taxpayers. Benjamin writes: > He's not foisting his religion on taxpayers, he's displaying > a monument. As far as I know, he's not requiring anyone to > agree with him. yes, but he wanted his monument to rest on p

Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Perelman
He is displaying his monument in a public space, lending an official support to the religious display. In any case, it is probably the best thing he can do for his career. On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:52:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Moore can be Christian, but he can't foist his religio

Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread bgramlich
> Moore can be Christian, but he can't foist his religion on the taxpayers. He's not foisting his religion on taxpayers, he's displaying a monument. As far as I know, he's not requiring anyone to agree with him. > I once heard Senator McGovern speak. As a Christian, he didn't want the governme

Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Devine, James
vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Gramlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] is this a great country or what? > > > Where is t

Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Gramlich
Where is the line between freedom of speech and separation of church and state? As far as I'm concerned, Moore ought to be able to have the ten commandments up if he wants them. I don't have to read them, and I don't have to ascribe any value to them. The problem is that there a whole bunch of whin

Re: is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hoover
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/03 12:13PM >>> from MS SLATE's daily news summary: >ousting of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore--relieved of his robes after refusing to remove his pet 5,280-pound "Ten Commandments" rock from the rotunda of the Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Jim header q

is this a great country or what?

2003-11-14 Thread Devine, James
from MS SLATE's daily news summary: >Everybody fronts the ousting of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore--relieved of his robes after refusing to remove his pet 5,280-pound "Ten Commandments" rock from the rotunda of the Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Moore's banishment was spearheaded by a form