RE: Ohio School Takes Down Jesus Portrait
April 5, 2013 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2013 at 12:29 pm by Mister Agenda.)
Chad:
OK. On the other hand, I think if you give antisecularists an inch, they'll take a mile. There are examples of these kinds of displays in small towns all over the country. The courts have ruled on the matter, and the displays stay up because school officials are confident no one will have the balls to stand up for the law in their 99.9% Christian podunk community.
And there would be a national storm of shit if one of those towns was found to have a similar display for a Wiccan.
The USA is explicitly secular with a Constitional guarantee the government won't interfere in religion. Without that, it's meh. With that, it's 'we don't care about our own laws'.
OK. On the other hand, I think if you give antisecularists an inch, they'll take a mile. There are examples of these kinds of displays in small towns all over the country. The courts have ruled on the matter, and the displays stay up because school officials are confident no one will have the balls to stand up for the law in their 99.9% Christian podunk community.
And there would be a national storm of shit if one of those towns was found to have a similar display for a Wiccan.
(April 5, 2013 at 12:26 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Schools in the catholic states of Germany and in Austria have crosses in the classrooms.
Often also in public buildings.
Nobody seems to care though, not even I care.
I guess with 40% of the population being atheist, some may think that it would be nitpicking, but I guess most simply dont care.
The USA is explicitly secular with a Constitional guarantee the government won't interfere in religion. Without that, it's meh. With that, it's 'we don't care about our own laws'.