shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren N. Shadwick) (05/16/84)
* There seems to be a concerted (conspiratorial) effort in the United States by the federal government to kill religion. A few points to ponder: * One Supreme Court decision that calls one school's policy of prayer unconstitutional. Now, everything that relates specifically to non-secularism is being called unlawful. Even to the private, quiet, individual saying of grace before meals in the school cafeteria. * An Oregon U.S. district court decision to enjoin the Portland school board from having an invocation during commencement exercises. * A federal appellate decision against a Judaic rabbi teaching the Talmud to children in his own home (was found to be in violation of a Florida city's zoning ordinance). * The defeat of the federal prayer amendment. * The defeat of the federal equal access legislation. * The Supreme Court has refused to review Rev. Sun Yung Moon's case in which he was found guilty of tax evasion on not reporting income from a bank account that he claims was for his church but was in his own name. Tell me if I'm wrong but as I understand all Catholic bishops and cardinals have the church accounts in their own names. I'm sure this list is by no means complete. Somehow I thought it would never come to this here. The freedom of religion is the rock upon which this nation was founded. A quote seems in order here: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them [the People] under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." -- The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. The United States will never be able to live down this great document and the Constitution. If our country, as it once existed, is to be restored it must be through the People by love. Yours always in Freedom, Warren N. Shadwick
rcd@opus.UUCP (05/21/84)
>There seems to be a concerted (conspiratorial) effort in the United >States by the federal government to kill religion... (See the parent article for an amazingly slim and inaccurate list of supporting points.) There seems to be a concerted (conspiratorial) effort in the United States by some religious groups (notably fundamentalists) to portray themselves as victims of a conspiracy, apparently hoping thereby to gain support for attempts to force their views on others. -- ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine. Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303) 444-5710 x3086