Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests From the "Athiests with too much time on their hands" file.

If some local governmental entity forbade a christian fundamentalist group from having a meeting on private property, because of the nature or message of the group, on whose side do you think the ACLU would be then?

Hey, ya gotta love the mindset of "we're a democracy, so what ever the majority wants should be the norm" as is substantially stated above. So this is what you'd champion: Perhaps there is now (or soon will be) a congressional district somewhere with a majority of its local registered voters being devout Muslims, who would attempt to put into place in public schools by their local majority vote a version of the Pledge of Allegiance saying "under Allah". The minority evangelical kids would be able to silently sit through it while feeling absolutely NO peer/community pressure to join the others who stand and recite it out loud every day like good, proud Americans.

It's ironic that some of the same people squawking about the separation of church and state issue today had grandparents who voted for Nixon in 1960 because they were certain the papist running against him would take orders directly from the Vatican.