Originally Posted by
Sasquatch
Big D: Since when is the Pledge of Allegience a Christian prayer? If children were being made to say a Hail Mary every morning, I could understand your viewpoint. Plus, the kids don't even have to say it--they can sit down through it, not stand up, not put their hand on their heart, not say anything at all, and as long as they're not being an actual disruption (meaning, if they sit down and shut up), the school can't do anything about it.
Yes, some Christians believe bigomy is alright. But that belief has been booted out of most churches, even the Mormon church. The point is, if society's view of marriage has changed from man-woman to man-man, what's going to keep it from changing to man-woman-woman, or man-child? And if we're offended by it, what's to stop people from saying "too bad, that's their right", just like they're doing with gays?
Al-Queda training camps have been found IN Iraq. Camps/schools to train terrorists on the basics of carrying out attacks against "infidels" have been discovered in Iraq. Iraq, if you remember, used to be run by Saddam Hussein. Saddam - Al-Queda, you asked? And by the way, yes, Saddam definitely IS an Islamic extremist.
If the government is going to "protect" other people from being exposed to my religion, why won't they protect my religion? Seperation of Church and State means that the government cannot establish a specific national religion. It doesn't mean that they can support general religion.
Too many people confuse "freedom of religion" with "freedom from religion".
