Originally posted by TourDeForce:
There are many places in Europe that already forbid the display of any religious icons in public. In other words, you can't wear a Cross or Star of David around your neck within public view.


You are referring to schools in France?

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
At the same time, many of these same places turn a blind eye if you march around with a pagan symbol on your T-shirt.


B.S. You have some imagination.

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Yet if a child mumbles a prayer in school, he/she is suspended or expelled. Where is the outcry on this abuse of first amendment rights???

BS you say? I was the one suspended & threatened with expulsion when I continued to speak a prayer each morning at school back in 1975. I was 12 years old, but I knew enough to ask about my first amendment right. After almost 2 weeks, the school board backed down on legal advice & I went back to classes..


So nothing happened to you. That's some persecution.

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
I'll be damned if anybody is gonna PREVENT me from exercising my faith to the extent allowed under constitutional protection.


I don't see anyone stopping you.

Dueling Duratecs '95 SE V6 MTX 0 Mods '04 Mazda6 S Wagon '03 Kawasaki Z1000 But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche