Absurd ed in Gville News with links to prom SC Pastor

[fox]

[fox]

[mlovell]

Try this one, Fox --
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[fox]

instead of http://at the beginning
http://www.greenvilleonline/news/opinio ... 539309.htm

[fox]

I have emailed McCalister inviting him to join us here. Will be fun to guage the legacy of Ed Young in South Carolina, not to mention the church where Joe Biden eulogized Strom Thurmond

[Jonathan]

[mlovell]

[Hal Eaton]

Thanks again, Fox, for calling to our attention the devious thinking (in print) of some of our fellow Babdists.

McAllister's plaint relies on the mistaken idea that the majority (an elected Congress) has the right to overturn judicial interpretations of the constitutionality of legalisms. Pleading that a Christian majority should have dominion over governmental actions like Christian prayers, even though subjected to complaint from non-Christian subservients of the authority, is tantamount to establishing one religion over the masses.

The oft-used phrase, "removing religion from public life," is a deliberate misnomer aimed at scaring folk with "the sky is falling" rhetoric. The continued harping on "what might happen" is senseless. Let's handle such matters when they arise, not on the basis of scare tactics utilized by those who want public religious (read "Christian") conduct--prayers, singing "Gimme the Ol-Time Religion, whatever--authorized and approved in governmental entities.

The voice of the majority has always been at the mercy of various pressures, hosted by political candidates (have you noticed?), preachers, columnists, bull-horn owners, students, activists, newsmen, demagogues of all sorts. Congressmen, while supposedly speaking for their constituents, are routinely influenced (for right or wrong) by special-interest folk, lobbyists, contributors, re-elections, party politics, pork, money, and GOK. (That's God-Only-Knows, for the uninitiated.)

The judiciary has always been the voice of reason, justice, and equality as it (they?) seek to abide by the spirit of the constitution in interpreting the law. I think that's their job. Somebody's got to do it, else we are all in big trouble.

Case in point: There are far more Catholics than Babdists. WASPS are a definite minority.

"Majority Rule" is OK by me, but only if I'm in the majority. (That's TIC, folks.)

[David Flick]