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Back to the Basics of Religious Liberty

Dean197 Wrote: May 15, 2013 9:50 AM
The issue is primarily with officers who are not chaplains and on duty and in uniform engaging on religious matters with subordinates. It's unprofessional to do that in civilian life too, although one might get away with it if all your subordinates are the same reliigon as you. The Pentagon is making an arbitrary distinction between evangelism and prosyletization, they're really the same thing; but in context, the prosyletization being discouraged would be continuing to talk to someone about why they should adopt religion after they've asked you not to. Talking about religion with your peers who don't object is fine, talking about it with people who do object is rude. Remember, if it's allowed for Christians, it's allowed for Muslims and atheists, and that would be a mess, wouldn't it?
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Saints Among Us

Dean197 Wrote: May 14, 2013 9:02 AM
An inspiring story. The plight and courage of these children is touching and sad. I'm pretty sure though, that the left's preference is just that the mother not be forced to bear children against her will, not to prevent Down's Syndrome babies from being born.
Why not? You guys are very fond of putting the words 'Judeo' and 'Christian' together. For purposes of the estabishment clause, JudeoChristianity can be considered a single religion. If the school was putting up the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism, would it be okay because it's two religions combined?
As long as non-Abrahamic religions are also represented, the courts agree with you. All the school has to do is also put up plaques with the Wiccan Rede and the Eightfold Path and they're good to go.
It doesn't say you have a right to vote, either. Federal law and legal precedents are clear. If the school follows your advice, it will cost the taxpayers a lot of money.
Can you name at least seven current laws that derive from at least seven different Commandments?
Public schools are an extension of the government. School staff are government employees. In particular, they're government employees with access to a captive audience of other people's children. If professing Christians abided by the 10 commandments, they'd never work on Saturdays (do you think it's okay to change the day of the Sabbath?), never use profanity, never have affairs, never steal a pen, and so on. You can't even successfully teach this stuff in Sunday School but you think it will work magic in government schools?
No they're not. The first three Commandments would be unConstutional to enforce and the last is the basis of our economic system .
It's not free speech when you charge the government for it.
I think we can safely translate 'unregenerate' as 'aware of the applicable laws'.
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