[Minister's son believes it should be illegal to post the Ten Commandments in government buildings.]
Run him out of town. Have businesses refuse to do business with him. People have to start standing up to these people. He needs to learn the law, because posting them is not illegal. Then again, our ideas and beliefs are outdated. When we let the few push us around, we get what we don't stand up for. That's why we are where we are in this country today.
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"posting them is not illegal"
Yes, with one important distinction: it must be on private property. Why is that so hard for you guys to understand? We're not trying to get them taken down everywhere, just where they are not legally appropriate.
Correction:
The Pastor's son in question doesn't believe that posting the 10 Commandments in a government building SHOULD be illegal, he believes that it IS illegal.
And he's right about that.
Fascism for Jesus.
Separation of church and state.
Treaty of Tripoli.
Seriously, arguing with these people is like arguing with a brick- all you do is waste hot air, and they don' hear a damn thing you say.
You raptards are the laughingstock of this country today. The only groups more dedicated than you to group stupidity have, in one fashion or another, committed mass suicide.
And that is precisely what you are hoping for, innit?
Get with the program. Drink the Flavorade.
"Run him out of town. Have businesses refuse to do business with him. People have to start standing up to these people."
Didn't someone about 2,000 years ago say something about "Love thy neighbor" and "Turn the other cheek"?
Who was that I wonder...
"He needs to learn the law, because posting them is not illegal."
That depends entirely on where you're posting them, now doesn't it?
Posting them in a government building is, in fact, illegal.
"Then again, our ideas and beliefs are outdated."
Right-o.
"When we let the few push us around, we get what we don't stand up for. That's why we are where we are in this country today."
You got to be in charge of damned near everything by being wallflowers? Funny, I thought it was because you make up the majority of the population and whine incessantly like a spoiled two year old when you don't get your way.
Ah, MrMann has entered the fray!
Frankly I don't think this guy ought to be run outa town. I think people out to just ignore his ranting and tar and feather the ACLU outa town!
Its the ACLU that needs the abuse. That and there needs to be serious civil disobedience going on. like plastering the 10 Comandments in every wall of every govt building.
The ACLU demonstrates that the time of tar and feathering is not past. These lawyers need someone to stand up to them, dip em in tar, dip em in feathers and drive them outa town with hickory switches!
after this happens about a 100 times they might get the idea.
Hmmm...
"run him out of town"?
"have businesses refuse to do business with him"?
"when we let the few push us around..."?
Now what does that remind me of? Ah, yeah, now I remember:
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(translation: Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!)
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Lets post extracts from the Quran, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Kama Sutra next to the Ten Commandments. That way there are alternatives, no forcing of one religion onto others.
I mean, if you got a choice of looking at the Ten Commandments or the Kama Sutra, how many would choose the first one?
BTW, don't most people know the Ten Commandments already? Regardless of level of faithfulness? Maybe not the order or the exact wording, but most people in the Western World have a notion about them. Pushing them onto people everywhere, is just going to make them tired of seeing them. THAT is why you are where you are in that country today.
AND IF THEY DO NOT BEAR THE MARK, THEY SHALL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BUY OR SELL
Congratulations. You just became the Antichrist.
Obviously the guy knows his legal stuff. You don't. As for all those people putting the 10 Commandments in their shops they can do so if they are the owner. If you succeed be prepared for a pentacle right by the commandments. It's only fair, right?
at least some of the posters disagreed with josh about running the man out of town.
When we let the few push us around, we get what we don't stand up for.
This is why (and I'm probably becoming a broken record at this point) I disagree with the idea of redefining the word "democracy" to include the government of the U.S. Too many people only know the classic definition-that the majority rules. By this definition, it makes sense that if Christians are in the majority, they should be able to require non-Christians to abide by the laws they vote for.
The fact that our government is based on a Constitution, and that all laws must conform to that Constitution, makes us a republic, not a democracy. If we keep this definition, then it's easier to explain why just because Christians are the majority doesn't mean they get to pass their morals off as law.
"Then again, our ideas and beliefs are outdated."
Finally, something a fundie & I can agree on.
So, by your logic, we should run out of town anyone who argues that we shouldn't do something that's legal. (It isn't legal, but still.)
There go all the pro-choice people!
He's a minister's son. You're a cretin from one of the deepest, darkest pits of stupidity known to the internet. You wouldn't recognize the law if it walked up to you, introduced itself and proceeded to hit you with the cluebat of justice.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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