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Re: Recent Supreme Court decision
Posted By: Charon, on host 169.207.200.121
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000, at 19:36:40
In Reply To: Recent Supreme Court decision posted by gabby on Tuesday, June 20, 2000, at 18:16:01:

I agree wholeheartedly. I am not a religious person by any means whatsoever, but if somebody else wants to pray in front of me, why should I care? As I see it, the Supreme Court made their decision for one of two reasons:

One, they were excersising some bigotry against religion. I certainly hope that's not the case, and don't think I need to support why.

Two, the Court wants to be politically correct, and not have anyone offended by somebody else's prayer. This doesn't seem to make much sense to me, since nobody ought to be getting offended by somebody's opinions. And if they are offended, they can respond in a decent and proper way. No big deal.

There is no "freedom FROM religion," there is only "freedom OF religion." You can practice whatever religion you want. I don't see how limiting freedom of speech in any way helps freedom of religion, which is what seems to be going on here. So that's just my two cents.

Charon