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I really just want consistency

I don’t understand how you can cancel one event “because it might offend someone “

then goes out of their  way  to make a new holiday  that will guarantee to offend others..

        But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

        Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting Jesus Christ, so that it would read A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion; the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

      -Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

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Re: Glenn Beck Throws A Frog Into Boiling Water?

try actually listening or watching thing in context?

right wing extremist shop , an answering comments:
http://www.cafepress.com/Ps…

The back of the shirt is the bill of rights Paraphrased with the full text of the tenth amendment .I’m a right wing extremest .. the T shirt

Im a Right Wing Extremist :

I Believe :

in the RIGHT to life, including the unborn ,
in the RIGHT to worship or not, in a manner I choose
in the RIGHT to Liberty and Freedom.
in the RIGHT to PURSUE happiness
in the RIGHT to Bear Arms
that the Government works for ME ,not I for it.
that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,

or to the people.
I believe we should honor our soldiers, and veterans .

I believe in the right NOT to have my children and grandchildren
SPENT into slavery by the federal Government !

I also made “Don’t tread on me .

and Pro-Life Pagan shirts .

since I’m in the teeny % of a teeny % of a teeny % faction of paganism or at least it seems that but I’m willing to bet their are more conservative Pagan out ther , there just still in hiding.

come out come out !!

ATTENTION separation of church and state threatened in CT,

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/? … hiMDMyZTc=

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Outrage in Connecticut — Committee Hearing on Bill to Dictate Catholic Church Operations [Jack Fowler]

I received this extremely troubling e-mail over the weekend from my paisan Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of Connecticut:

Big Turnout Needed Wednesday, March 11th to Stop Major New Attack on Religious Liberty!

The [Democrat]-controlled Judiciary Committee has introduced Raised Bill 1098, a bill aimed specifically at the Catholic Church, which would remove the authority of the bishop and pastor over individual parishes and put a board of laymen in their place. Yes, we’re asking the same questions you are (Where does the legislature have the authority to do this? Isn’t this a blatant violation of the First Amendment?), but we assure you that this is not a hoax.

We need as big a turnout as possible for the public hearing on Wednesday, especially from non-Catholics. As Ben Franklin told the Founders while they were signing the Declaration of Independence, “either we hang together or we will all hang separately.” Legislators need to understand that this bill is an attack on everyone’s religious liberty.

If the legislature can replace a bishop with a board of laymen in the Catholic Church, they can just as easily replace the governing lay structure of Congregationalist or Baptist churches with someone set up as a bishop. In fact, it was resistance to such government interference in the internal life of the church that gave birth to several of our most historic denominations. Thanks to this awful bill, our generation must now rise up to defend those hard-fought victories for religious liberty that were won for us by our ancestors.

The Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on R.B. 1098 on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 12:00 P. M. in Room 2C of the LOB. Please submit 45 copies of written testimony to Committee staff at least two hours prior to the start of the hearing in Room 2500 of the LOB. Testimony submitted after the designated time may not be distributed until after the hearing. Sign-up for the hearing will begin at 10: 00 A. M. in Room 2500 of the LOB. Sign-up will conclude 30 minutes before the start of the hearing. Speaker order will be decided by a lottery system. Anyone wishing to testify after the drawing is closed will be placed at the end of the list. The first hour of the hearing is reserved for public officials. Speakers will be limited to 3 minutes of testimony.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/09/c … ic-church/

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Connecticut moving to regulate the Catholic Church?
posted at 8:11 am on March 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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According to the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause, the government has no business dictating to religious organizations how they should structure themselves. In Connecticut, though, some lawmakers seem to have skipped over the Constitution. A new bill will require Catholic parishes and dioceses — and only Catholics — to organize their parish leadership in a way that pleases the Connecticut legislature (via The Corner):