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Randy
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USA
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 Posted - 11/11/2008 : 14:13:35
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Hopefully, this won't require a login. It's an interesting case before the SCOTUS on religious displays on public property. Sounds like a made up religion for such kind of test.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/washington/11sect.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 16:17:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
Sounds like a made up religion for such kind of test..... |
Uh. As opposed to the religions that aren't made up?  |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 16:25:29 [Permalink]
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Ha!...got me there. On the other hand, it could just be that the mushrooms are channeling through them.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 17:20:18 [Permalink]
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| The city, supported by more than 20 cities and states, along with the federal government, has told the Supreme Court that the upshot of affirming the appeals court decision would be to clutter public parks across the nation with offensive nonsense. |
How about if they just remove their offensive nonsense and allow the new nonsense in and the park wont be cluttered? Better yet, have an offensive nonsense of the month area and allow everyones offensive nonsense equal time?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 17:40:48 [Permalink]
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I'd thought that the Roy's Rock case had settled this nonsense.
Heh, if they want frontier tradition, Austin Powder is the answer to all bullshit monuments, religious & otherwise -- argument ended.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 19:01:34 [Permalink]
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If I remember correctly, Fred Phelps wanted to put a monument to Matthew Shepard being in hell (where he deserves to be, according to Phelps) in a public park in Wyoming, and argued that since the park had a Ten Commandments monument, the local government couldn't say "no." A court agreed.
So the town removed the Ten Commandments monument. Problem solved. |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2008 : 00:29:53 [Permalink]
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A fitting dialog for 21st Century America - Mormorons and Summun's squalling loudly as to whose idiocy, graven in stone, shall be erected in a public place.
I sincerely hope the Sumnumbs prevail and theirs is only the second of hundreds of tombstones dedicated to ignorance that follow - to the point where there is room for nothing else, not even people in the park. Then the stupifyingly stupid pile of groumd granite gravures can truly fulfill it's purpose of a monument to utter meaninglessness! |
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