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The government cannot justify on one hand the displaying of the Ten Commandments and on the other the legalized murder of innocent, defenseless human being in their most vulnerable place: the mother's womb. So, one of them has to go. The winner is: legalized murder.

Well, this does not even surprise me, and you know why? Satan could care less if false religions practice and wear their little objects, but he does not want the name of Christ mentioned, he don't want to see the truth of the cross, or the gospel being preached (The exclusive gospel-1 Cor 15:1-4) that is why, Christ is always blasphemed on TV, and the Internet, yet, you never ever here mohammed or budda mocked., I have not, satan knows the truth, and that is why he uses people to mock the true God, come on, It's obvious.

This is rife in the United Kingdom more than other supposedly "Christian" country I have seen. Muslim females are allowed to wear the hijab in school, but a Christian is not allowed to wear a small cross around his or her neck. There is something seriously wrong here...

What planet are you people living on? Do you really believe this nonsense? Yeah, Christians have it really rough in the USA. NOT!

Do you ever notice how some people have a highly defined sense of who, at any given point in time, is on their list of "enemies", while there are others who never give the subject a thought. Who do you suppose ar the truly spiritual ones, the ones who keep lists of enemies or the others?

I do not justify it at all.

UPDATE2... You know what's interesting since I put this up, I have received 4 unhelpful votes and no one has yet been brave enough to comment. Do you think the ACLU is fair to Christians in this country? Why? UPDATED...Well said Sundiszno! Also, I have to agree with HistoryFan in that "Christians are allowed to pray in schools but they usually do it silently to themselves". I can pray anywhere I like and do. The question is... how do we justify worrying about one persons rights while denying another's? The ACLU is the worst for denying rights to Christians. They will fight for and defend anyone even if it means walking all over the Christian. I have been involved in government for many years and dealt with the ACLU, they hide behind what they call fairness, when if fact they are anything but!

Just a note: Christians are allowed to pray in schools but they usually do it silently to themselves.

Update to Jay- You're right; I'm wrong. Marx did say it. However, I still think it's a germane phrase as relates to this issue, not drugs, and absolutely appropriate in this instance. Metaphorically, religion can act and often does act as a drug that takes people away from the reality of their lives, let's face it. Also, I still stand by the rest of what I said, absolutely.---For me, this is sort of a non-issue. Great, all people should have freedom of religion (after all, Lenin did call it the opiate of the masses), but how about freedom from religion for a change? It seems to be responsible for most of the bloodshed, oppression, and intolerance throughout human history in nearly every culture. Ms. Bush travels to the Middle East and the most important issue for her is that people have the right to worship as they want. Fine, I agree, but I also think it's more important that they have enough to eat, that they have adequate medical care and housing, that their most basic, fundamental physical and mental needs are attended to before we start involving ourselves with some vague, ethereal concept of worship or God. And this is as true, or should be, for America as it is for the Middle East. The religious in this country love to paint themselves as a beleaguered, oppressed minority but it gets really tiresome after awhile. In one city near me, there's a church on nearly every street corner, along with a liquor store. In the Middle East, you'll have trouble finding a liquor store, but if you look hard enough, I'm sure you'll be able to find a church of some kind. School is the only place someone can find to say a prayer? How about a room at home? An open field? The toilet? As for the Ten Commandments...that's the only moral code available? What if I'm Muslim? Or Buddhist? Or Hindu? Or very moral but atheistic? I don't mean to offend sincerely religious people or appear blasphemous, but I'm so tired of pretending that worship of some Holy Ghost is an absolute, integral part of every person's life (and, believe it or not, I'm not an atheist). Bush and Osama Bin Laden probably have more in common than either would be willing to admit. God save us from the fundamentalists!

(Uh uh Edt4)It was Marx-not Lenin-who said,religion is the opiate of the masses;.This is actually a good argument for legalizing opium use;bad argument here. Marx,who was the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis,was baptised when he was six;he hated Jews and both religions.And Communism-which he founded and Naziism are responsible for more slaughter than anything else.They are reasons to take God and religion seriously.Now,for those of us who don't feel oppressed by public Nativity scenes,how far is this assault on Judaic-Christian symbols supposed to go?Thanks to the ACLU,a small cross was removed from the LA county seal-and there was a protest against the removal of a Biblical plaque from the Grand Canyon-dat's right;they went to the Grand Canyon...and noticed a plaque.Don't believe me?Probably nobody has had more to say about this than Dennis Prager,an LA based radio talk show host,lecturer and author.His website,so far,has at least a 13-part series about messing with the Judaic-Christian symbols of our society(DennisPrager.com).

My thing is, everyone should have the freedom to express their religious (or lack thereof) views, just as long as it's not FORCED on everyone else. I don't care if anyone practices their particular form of prayer, just as long as they don't force me to do it. I don't care if some statue of the Ten Commandments are displayed somewhere, just as long as anyone else who wants to build a statue representing their religion is allowed to place theirs beside it. I don't care if you say under God during the Pledge of Allegiance, I don't care if you skip that part. What's wrong with a little respect, folks? Are we not mature enough to play nice with each other? As long as it's not offensive or hateful, do your thing.

Let's call a spade a spade - this question pretty much refers to the ACLU's position on granting terrorists (most of whom happen to be Muslim, but that of course does not translate to all Muslims being terrorists) all of the protections, rights, advantages, and blessings if yu will, of the Constitution, while strenuously objecting to anything and everything Christian. Of course it's a double standard, and anyone who doesn't see it has their vision obscured becaue it's hard to see straight when suffering from rectal-cranial inversion.

What language do you want to pray in? What monotheistic religion do you want to worship? My upbringing involved Christians, Jews, Muslims, and a sprinkle of Buddhists. . .if you can't make all of the kiddies comfortable then you have to let them keep the religious practices at home. It's fair to the kids and teaches tolerance. That some people refuse to accept this precept is a source of incredible laughter to the educated, tolerant, and yes- the true charitable religious people. If you aren't willing to look out for the freedoms of others, then feel free to leave America.

Well we arent denying just christians right to prayers. We are denying everyone at schools, you cant just single one religious group out of all of them. Thats like those wacky law books that say that you cant bring a hippo into a post office when the lawactually is against bringing any animal into any public building. As for the ten commandments issue, if you can put the ten commandments in front of a courthouse, you should also be able to put the nine pillars of Islam there too, and people wouldnt like that. If you didnt allow someone to put a statue of the Buddah perhaps, in front of the courthouse and you allow the ten commandments to stay, thats unjust according to the constitution. You'd have to give every religion fair room.

Hi Randy :o) As always, it's a pleasure. Actally, I think the correct wording for this would be: Those who criticize the enemy for being religious zealots and coming from Islamic states. and yet have a fit when church and state is seperated in this country. These people who think our laws should be Christian based, yet criticize other governments for being religion-based. These are the same people who think religious institutions should have a hand in government and yet be tax exempt. You can't have it both ways you know people.