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Ted Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> Tracey*Levin wrote:
> >
> > klaatu wrote:
> >
> > > I'm extremely conservative, however, I do not share your religious views. And
> > > as you seem to be unable to understand that not all Conservatives are
> > > Christians (though many are), you also seem to be unable to understand that
> > > not all Christian Conservatives are religious bigots such as you, sadly, seem
> > > to be.
> >
> > Klaatu, I do not understand the reference to religious bigots, but I do
> > understand that my views are dominant in the Republican party.
> > And, whatsmore, I want you to have the right to be a Jew who rejects
> > God, but openly claims to be Conservative, or a strong Christian who
> > believes that God is right, and that we need prayer back in our public
> > schools to give the children the right to exercise their Constitutional
> > rights on evil government property which their parents are paying for.
> 
> Unfortunately, you so-called conservatives don't believe in the
> Constitution of the United States.  You want to amend it to enforce your
> religious bigotry on all of us.
> 
> When I was a child in elementary school we said prayers. There were
> THREE Christians in my class, the rest were Buddhist and Jewish.  Those
> three were Catholics.  The prayers we were forced to say were extremely
> distasteful to most of us, but to the Catholics they were SINS - they
> were being given the choice of going to hell, or getting thrown out of
> school.
> 
> Another thing that you anti-constitutionalists haven't thought of.  When
> the Government can tell you when and what to prey, they can equally
> require a prayer to Satan - and don't you think it won't happen!! after
> your amendment you won't be able to do anything about it.
> 
> I think that I am the only one who can decide what and how my children
> pray, and I'm sure that they are a lot more religious than you are

Ted, clam down and listen to me for a second here.
No one wants to force you, your children, or anyone else to say a
prayer.  Every Christian I know thinks that would be a very wrong thing
to do.  But, at the same time, we do not want you telling us that our
children cannot pray openly in school.  

Liberals have a very hard time with living in a society as diverse as
ours.  For some reason, they seem to believe that if God is
acknowledeged by students in public schools, those same schools will
suddenly become Baptist, or Catholic churches which will instantly lead
to the rewriting of the Constitution to include a new amendment stating
that there is now a national religion.

Liberals are way off base on this issue.  Students have a right to free
exercise of their religion even on government property.  For who is the
government in this country?  And, there are no writings of our
forefathers that considered banning God from our local, state, or
federal offices, buildings, or any politician who proclaims to believe
in him.

Liberals are highly threatened by strong believers in God and Christ
Jesus.  They see our government and religion as an all or nothing
situation: We either have no references to God in government, or we have
an official state religion where everyone is forced to attend church by
law.

Thankfully, or founding fathers never dreamed of banning God for any
area within our wonderful country.  It is only recently that liberals
have been misquoting our Constitution by claiming to have a right
somewhere within it that grants them "Freedom From Religion".  However,
my copies of that surely inspired document only states that Government
shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion.

Of course, liberals have the right to not listen to the street corner
preacher, or the fellow student in school who is praying openly with
friends.  But, that same liberal cannot prohibit the free exercise of
religion by his fellow countrymen, nor fellow students.  
STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE TO CHECK THEIR CONSTITUTION EACH DAY AS THEY WALK
INTO A PUBLIC SCHOOL.