Larry Caldwell wrote in
:

In article m,
(Brandon McCombs) says...
Evan Platt wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:52:28 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Washington woman gets complaint from HOA that she has too many
chickens in her yard (like more than zero).

Woman registers her displeasure by honking her horn repeatedly, a
dawn (since there are no more roosters), in front of HOA's
president's house.

When arrested, woman claims horn-honking is an exercise in free
speech.

Convicted anyway.

Obviously the judge is in the pocket of the HOA.

Your freedom of anything ends when it interferes with someone
elses freedom of anything.


You would freedom of anything ends when it interferes with someone
else's freedom of anything but there is at least one exception to
this theory:

Anti-religious nuts believe they can use the "separation of church
and state" interpretation to cause other people to no longer have a
freedom of religion in certain situations (i.e. any where not in the
privacy of your home). The sad thing is that many of them are winning
their battle (or maybe others are just caving so a win by forfeit).
So we have freedom of no religion impinging on the rights of others
to have a freedom of religion and no one thinks that double standard
needs to stop so in that case one freedom hasn't ended when it has
interfered with another freedom.

Freedom OF religion includes freedom FROM religion. How would you
feel if a judge made you sacrifice a chicken to the Loa before
testifying in court? Or a teacher started each day by having your
children channel the spirits?

Certainly a government sponsored religion would have real benefits for
Christians. For instance, children could be taught that the idea of
people going to heaven when they die is a corruption brought back by
the crusaders from Islam. The Bible clearly states that the dead
sleep until the resurrection. Children need to be taught that Heaven
is a childish fairy tale, like Santa Claus. Just two or three
generations of government religion and Heaven would be extinct. There
are those who think the loss of personal freedom would be worth it if
it would purify the faith and stamp out heresy.


the entire idea of school prayer is to indoctrinate other schoolkids into
their religion.
Certainly,any kid who -wants- to pray can find their own time to quietly do
it.
School time is for school;it's State time.

Besides,I suspect the school-prayer proponents would scream if Muslim kids
hauled out their prayer rug and began praying in public schools.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net