I am sitting at a truck stop in Alabama to make a delivery tomorrow.
Alabama is the home of Justice Roy Moore, the man who seems to feel it
is perfectly ok to put a 3 ton granite slab bearing the ten commandments
on the courthouse lawn. He truly cannot understand why that violates the
First Amendment. Mr Moore and his supporters appear to believe that the
First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion means that a person is
allowed to choose which denomination of christianity they will follow.
They will see any effort to bring some equality in how religion and
nonreligion are treated by the government as persecution of christians.
They cannot see that the so-called persecution is only removing the
favored and privileged status that their belief system enjoys.
In my last post, I proposed adjusting the holiday at the end of December
to a specific day of the week in order to eliminate the christian
privilege inherent in a government holiday for christmas. They will see
that as an attack on the foundations of our government, as well as an
attempt to eliminate god from the public sphere. They do not understand
that I don't care what religious things they do. In fact, I would
encourage them to continue celebrating christmas. It is a major part of
their belief system, and who am I to prohibit that? All I want is for
the government to end the priveleges that christianity has over all
others, religious and nonreligious alike.
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