be whatever religion you want, just don't shove it down my throat

is that too much to ask? worship jehovah? fine. worship shiva, no prob. worship a chicken foot? sure, why not.

just don't cram it down my throat by constitution or force. i know what america would look like under a pat robertson or falwell pig.

Just ask my parents, or their fundy pastor.

:banghead:

BLEARRRRRGH (the god of throat-ramming).

:)

I couldn't agree more, mopaul.

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can't argue that. I doubt that most fundies would like a theocracy, anyway.

:applause:

I don't force my atheism on people - I don't like religion forced
on me.

it's everywhere, even here and that is disturbing to me. Go to whatever church or gathering you want, just leave me out of it.

:you rock:

my freedom to NOT practice your religion begins.

Other than that, knock yourself out.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00266.htm

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Re the last point, envision some doddering judges who still revere our Declaration of Independence's "decent respect to the opinions of mankind," and suppose they invoke in their rulings some international precepts from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women or, God forbid, the Geneva Conventions. W ell, under the CRA that would all be clearly illegal and, thank God, that's the last we'd ever hear from them.

Imagine hyper-zealous officers or "entities" of the Federal, State, or local government (like a governor, legislature or school board) that mandate Christian prayers, rituals and/or statuary in public buildings under their control. Were this to happen, some local Jews, Muslims and/or Buddhists might be moved to hire a lawyer and legally object. But if the CRA passes, their objection would be beyond any court's jurisdiction and that's the last we'd ever hear of that. It in fact demands "impeachment, conviction, and removal of judges" who dare to even hear a case that challenges its "Last Days" morphing of Christian church and state. (Just how our new Sovereign Source of Government's advocacy of public executions for adultery, gay-ness, contraception and blasphemy will fit into our current corrections system still remains to be seen.)

The potential impact of the Constitution Restoration Act on American life, law and politics is so radical and vast that you would expect a boiling national debate. Yet just as with the crimes and questions of 9/11, everyone in the media seems terrifically busy looking the other way. If you want yet another dramatic metric of US journalistic dysfunction, try Googling "Constitution Restoration Act" in their News category and see what you get. Today, three weeks after the bill was filed, I find a grand total of three throwaway mentions in Alabama's Shelby County Reporter, the Decatur Daily, and the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. ("Terry Schiavo" in contrast will net you over a thousand news hits, and "Michael Jackson" just passed 36,000 with a bullet.)

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This is something that clearly has to be stopped.