I could get on board with that.
I see FFRF's point, though. Instances like this really stick out to people and the cost of legal battles will really make at least some decision makers think through a different lens when they are making decisions at the beginning of this process.
When this lady died in 2004 and the person was designing her memorial, they probably were thinking exactly what you said. Maybe in the future, they will think about where the memorial is going as well. To me, there is a small but discernible difference between "public space" and Middle School. I do not want ANY religious symbolism where I pay for my kid to go to school to learn.
I see FFRF's point, though. Instances like this really stick out to people and the cost of legal battles will really make at least some decision makers think through a different lens when they are making decisions at the beginning of this process.
When this lady died in 2004 and the person was designing her memorial, they probably were thinking exactly what you said. Maybe in the future, they will think about where the memorial is going as well. To me, there is a small but discernible difference between "public space" and Middle School. I do not want ANY religious symbolism where I pay for my kid to go to school to learn.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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