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Friday, August 22, 2003

Regarding the anti-constitution Justice down in Alabama, Oliver Willis sums up a lot of my feelings pretty well.
Some people never get it. It is written as plain as day in America's most sacred document that "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."

How much clearer can that be? Yet some elements of our society, including those whose job it is to uphold and interpret it, can't tell which way is up. In America we're free to practice our faith regardless of what it is as long as it does not harm another - but some people don't like that. They would prefer to tell you how to live the little dumb plan they've set out for you than have you make your own way, what is wrong with them?

The ten commandments has no room in such a building. It's that simple and its time our homegrown fundamentalists accept that.
And if they don't like it, they can throw in their lot with the Taliban. Our religious nuts should stick to less serious things, like calling Tinky Winky gay and blaming 9/11 on family planning doctors and the ACLU.

UPDATE: Of course, I have no problem with Justice Moore displaying The Two Commandments, as described by George Carlin.

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