Nothing is safe/sacred from the morons...

I looked up the claim about the government still paying out pensions for civil war veterans. There's one. A daughter of a soldier. (Crazy story) She gets 73 dollars a month. But the article I found ran also gave the stats for ww1 vets. Pretty fascinating stuff. It went on to discuss the years the government will be paying benefits to Iraq war vets families.

 

If the issue was as simple as being offended it wouldn’t have ended up in front of Gorsuch and Thomas.

And Judeo-Christian values.

 

What is so funny about Judeo-Christian values and natural law?

 

You bit...

 

I hope some day some asshole builds a monument dedicated to the AHA and someone else is offended by it and goes to court to have it removed.

This country was founded on religious freedom as one of the pillars of our society. There are symbols of all religions all over the fucking place.

If you don't like it, just don't look at it.

I can walk by a Jewish or Muslim or any Christian flavor of religion house of worship and see their preferred symbols and not think a damned thing for or against it. It's not my "flavor" so I'm not gonna order from their menu.

I'm disgusted that 49 people lost their lives in the name of defending our freedoms, and these assholes exercise their freedoms to disrespect this small token the community decided to erect as a "Thank you".

PS...RBG is a cunt.

 

A-Ha!

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The problem I have with that is a religious symbol... which religion? The 2nd was aimed at preventing a state religion ala the church of england which then would prohibit the free expression of others. People like skelator are imposing a state religion of atheism. Sure the cross is on public land but which religion is it southern baptist? or catholic? Do we also ban any public displays of religion? How about earth days gaia mentions? Of course we would have to level Salem with all the mentions of witches (wika). No yin/yang displays. The list goes on. Unless someone is pushing their particular flavor on others like church of england did or sharia law then @#$#@ it put up whatever is appropriate. Especially when it honors someone. For instance if you built a monument to the Navajo code talkers who did a great service to this country in WWII should you not include any symbolism that honors them including religious symbols if appropriate to that person? Ditto for a grave stone in a National Cemetery to a person who was Islamic, mark the grave in a way to show respect to that person including symbols from Islam (if that was the persons wish).

Freedom OF Religion not from it, that just makes Atheism the state religion like some wish to impose.

 

I understand this and l don’t necessarily disagree. I think the critical factor is it being on public land not private. But it appears they found other grounds in order to allow it to remain, so........

 

When it was erected it was not on public land.

 

Acksully, looks like it got away.

 

The same can't be said for Slick Willie

 

Nah. I’ll let you twist in your own myopic creative interpretation of our country’s founding.

 

A monument erected by civilians to honor the war dead is hardly a statement by the government endorsing the religion. The government didn't pay for it, didn't force anyone to pay homage to it. It was most certainly in tune with the times and only in our nutty present do some odd balls go looking for something to take issue with. Let the dead rest in peace (and the rest of us too!)

 

That’s what I don’t understand. You either have separation of church and state or you don’t. I’m puzzled by their ruling.

 

What is really interesting is that 5 of 7 of the people whos job is to interpret the constitution and make these rulings disagree with you. Yet you continue to insist that it is against the constitution...

 

That part I understand but it’s now on public property and it shouldn’t matter who funded it or erected it. So the government should divest itself from the property or take it down if they truly wanted to keep separation of state.