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Thats fine Edward


I'll support the boyscouts
you support the gays

You reward all the children swearing and using 4 letters words
I'll reward those that yes sir and and thank you

and if you find someone putting your kids on child porn site sue him for not sharing profits with you. In fact go one step further and have him air it on television--would that be under freedom of expression or freedom of press.

You support your freedoms of sexual deviats--child porn-San Fran/DC majoritys

I just have to find a way to put up with the tryanny of well mannered children-- anti pervert crowd from the whilte picket-flag waving society.

Just do us a favor and try to keep yours out of ours ;)
 
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Gays vs Boyscouts, thats fine that you can only win your bashing of the ACLU by examing one area but that is TYPICAL of what right wing moral majority folks tend to do on all subjects. Personally, I would rather have gays in the boy scouts than allow this country to be turned over to right wing religious fanatics that want to tell YOU how to live but at the same time their same rules do not apply to their own lives. The ACLU is one of many fine organizations that will fight tooth and nail against right wing religious zealots to prevent them from ruining the constitution that our forefathers died for!
 

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No Wayne:

You never do seem to grasp the big picture. If the freedoms, liberties and rights of individuals are being taken away or threatened, then the ACLU comes into play whether on behalf of the boy scouts or the gays. You continue to cite individual acts whereas I continue to talk about the concepts beyond the acts.

The end does not justify the means. You apparently are willing to put your faith and trust in the government to do the right thing as you define it pursuant to your Christian beliefs. I do not trust the government to do so. I wonder which side the framers would be on?

Eddie
 

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i`m very glad that the fact that several of the aclu`s founding fathers were communists wasn`t questioned....

it must be a well known fact...roger baldwin was the founder...lol...(karl marx is laughing beyond the grave)

stuff like the l.a. county seal issue....the christmas carol ban...fighting suits to restrict child porn on the net....

complaints that we are not abiding by the rules of the geneva convention in the treatment of terrorist prisoners.....lol.... as much as i try, i do not recall any terrorists signing the geneva convention......

if you are gay the aclu will defend your rights. if you are female and discriminated against you might receive help. If you fit into a number of specific groups the aclu promotes they will assist you.

with that i`m fine...i agree...

however, america's veterans, which is a group, or "class" of citizens that has been abused as much as most other groups in history is not assisted by the aclu...

the aclu is a true offshoot of the communist party....right from the top of their atheistic heads to the tips of their anarchistic tails......
 
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If your that concerned about Vet's being abused then you better point your anger at their treatment towards the Bush Administration as this administration has harmed Vets more than any pass administration in my history. Wait till these new cuts come in March they are going to hammer the VETS further! As far as communism, while you may be right that the ACLU was founded by commies but you are wrong about Marx spinning in his grave over the ACLU but more than likely Marx would be spinning in his grave over many of the acts of the Patriot Act which has echoes of alot of communism beliefs. Without groups like the ACLU, Bush and the other liars would trample the constitution with no regards for YOUR rights. Do you realize that through the Bush pollution laws (that were written by the main polluters of our environment) that it is now legal again for industries to release mercury into our water systems? We as a society got bent out of shape over six people dying from Anthrax but do you realize that over 24k people died last year from mercury related deaths and that 10% of children born last year in the united States had brain defects from Mercury that will lower their IQ's by a minimum over 10 points. Without groups like the ACLU pointing out this abuse it would continue until all of our resources were contaminated and this administration has no cares about this or the future of the youth!
 

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"The ACLU is one of many fine organizations that will fight tooth and nail against right wing religious zealots to prevent them from ruining the constitution that our forefathers died for!"

Yep Since "our founding fathers" included God in about everything they died for---

Ban of Christmas,Easter ect
Ban of prayer in school
Ban of pledge of allegiance
Take in God we trust off money
Have legal system aid and abet the very people we are at war with
Want obsenities on airways
intended to protect child pornographers
sure they intended liberal judges to trump will of the people.
I am sure they would like any religious symbol on state emblems replaced with an ole white owl between their lips.

Didn't we the people tell you anything in past election--and saying it is from right wing zealots is laughable--did you know that last election was 1st time in 25 years that Dems did not have majority of registered voters--Its the center of both parties that see the liberals agenda--and it won't float--unless your from San Fran-DC.

and while on "those that died tangent" why don't you take survey of those who fought and are fighting about their turmoils to arrest and capture these people trying to kill them only to have you "word warriors" trying to turn em lose.

"Show me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are"

by the way if you want to know what are founding fathers or framers as Edward calls them,say on matter--here is link it would take TOO MANY pages to cut and paste--you tell me.

http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm
 
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Ban of Christmas,Easter ect
Ban of prayer in school
Ban of pledge of allegiance
Take in God we trust off money
Have legal system aid and abet the very people we are at war with
Want obsenities on airways
intended to protect child pornographers
sure they intended liberal judges to trump will of the people.
I am sure they would like any religious symbol on state emblems replaced with an ole white owl between their lips.

U NAILED IT DOGS. THESE ARE SOEM OF THE THINGS I BELIEVE ARE REALLY HURTING CANADA AND THE US. WE CANT SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS ANYMORE, ITS HAPPY HOLIDAYS. WELL FUUUK THAT BS.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ALLOW IMMIGRANTS FROM RELIGIONS WAY OFF OF YOURS INTO THE COUNTRY,

IF THE US AND CANADA DONT WAKE UP SOON WE WILL BE LITTLE INDIA AND LITTLE CHINA AND LITTLE SAUDI ARABIA. AND EVEN LITTLE AFRICA.

SORRY IF I OFFENDED ANYONE BUT THATS HOW I HONESTLY FEEL.
 

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Dogs,

You seem to have a big hangup about San Francisco did you have a bad experience there? If someone wants to worship god thats their choice but it should not be forced on others and if you recall our country was formed for the purpose of freedom of religion. Wold you find it acceptable if your son or daughter was forced to pray to a black jesus? Or to Buddaha? Which god will our children be praying to in school or is it only acceptable if it falls under your beliefs? Would you find it okay if the pledge of allegiance was altered to state "one nation under Brahma"? Or is it only acceptable to you if we use what you believe in? Obscenities on air waves, turn the channel thats your right that the constitution gave you, what you find tasteless does not make it tasteless for others. The last thing this country needs is wackos trying to tell us what is acceptable as funny and what is lewd, if you dont like it ignore the station turn the dial. God has no place on any state symbols unless your going to depict all gods for each religion that is worshiped in the United States, your choice of belief is not the only correct one and therefore you do not have the right to tell us it is the only way to think. Like it or not, this country is more than ever a melting pot of tons of different folks with different beliefs and up to this point no one has been able to show without doubt that their religious beliefs are correct! Who cares what the registered voters are right now it's cyclical and the Dems have put up to piss poor candidates in a row. Who are we capturing and what did they do to us in Iraq? As far as I know not a single Iraq citizen has been linked to 9/11 over 85% are from Saudi Arabia so I guess you should of worded it that the leader of the Republican party elected to not go after the country where the murderers came from! I dont need to look at the framers article as they came from many different aspects of life and beliefs and would be turning in their graves knowing people like the moral majority are trying to persecute al lreligious beliefs other than there own. The ACLU and other defenders of freedom will continue to act as a check and balance against these freaks that preach the bible yet fail to follow it! Personally I am a practicing Catholic but I do not believe my religion should be imposed on anyone else nor do I want someones else's religious beliefs forced unto me. What would the wacked out religious right have to say if it were to be true what many religious scholars have proposed that Jesus Christ was a black man due to area and region he hailed from?
 
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this is just so ugly and stupid. middle please. we all know what's reasonable, yet we create these strange barriers based on politics that make no sense.

take a deep breath - think about what matters - i think we will all have a general consencus.
 

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"You seem to have a big hangup about San Francisco did you have a bad experience there?"

Never been there--don't intend to go.

"Would you find it acceptable if your son or daughter was forced to pray to a black jesus?"

Woudn't find it aceptable if they were "forced" to pray to anyone--as far as I know there is no religion except Muslim that persucutes you if you don't walk their walk. Can you think of another???

and for the ulimate in liberal logic--
"Obscenities on air waves, turn the channel thats your right that the constitution gave you, what you find tasteless does not make it tasteless for others."

If those that oppose obscenitys on the air "just need to change channels"--why is it liberals just don't participate in prayer-the pledge of allegiance--don't look at nativity scenes-don't say Merry Christmas ect.
What pray tell (excuse the pun) makes you liberals think that what what you oppose is fine but what the majority does makes squat. Can you conceive how utterly foolish that statement is?

Heres another liberal thinker---

Court Rejects Challenge to Inaugural Prayer

Saturday, January 15, 2005



WASHINGTON ? A federal judge on Friday rejected a challenge brought by atheist Michael Newdow (search) to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration.

On Thursday, Newdow told U.S. District Judge John Bates that having a minister invoke God in the Jan. 20 ceremony would violate the Constitution by forcing him to accept unwanted religious beliefs.

But one day later, Bates ruled that Newdow wouldn't get far in his legal challenge and noted the absence of a "clearly established violation of the Establishment Clause."

Click here to read the Memorandum Opinion in Newdow v. Bush (FindLaw pdf).

"Moreover," the judge said in the ruling, "the balance of harms here, and particularly the public interest, does not weigh strongly in favor of the injunctive relief Newdow requests, which would require the unprecedented step of an injunction against the president."

The government had asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (search) to dismiss the current lawsuit, saying the invocation had been widely accepted for more than 200 years old.

The court on Friday said it doesn't have the power to order the president not to speak at his own inauguration and the act of ordering the president not to permit an invocation and benediction ? which Newdow sought ? would be one and the same.

Newdow argued he would be harmed as someone attending the inauguration by being forced to listen to sectarian and specifically, Christian, prayer. The court said that harm is simply too small to warrant its involvement in the matter. Also, the court said Newdow really doesn't have the legal standing to make this request since he sued over inauguration prayers in 2001 and lost that case in two federal courts.

Appearing on FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes" late Friday, Newdow continued to trumpet his cause. He said that reciting prayers at the inauguration violates the rights of atheists because it undermines equality.

"How can you say it's equal to say to some people that they have to listen to other people espouse religious dogma in the name of the government?" he said.

After his first inaugural legal attempt, Newdow became famous in 2002 for his unsuccessful attempt to remove the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Two ministers delivered Christian invocations at Bush's inaugural ceremony in 2001, and plans call for a minister to do the same before Bush takes the oath of office again next week.

In court this week, Newdow argued that the prayers violate the constitutional ban on the establishment of religion.

"I am going to be standing there having this imposed on me," Newdow told the court by phone on Thursday. "They will be telling me I'm an outsider at that particular moment."

Newdow also argued that taxpayer-financed inaugural ceremonies cannot be a platform for "the coercive imposition of religious dogma," adding that the president intended to "use the machinery of the state to advocate his religious beliefs."

Bates questioned both sides vigorously at Thursday's two-hour hearing, but said he doubted a court could order the president not to include a prayer when he takes the oath of office.

"Is it really in the public interest for the federal courts to step in and enjoin prayer at the president's inauguration?" Bates asked.

Bates also questioned whether the lawsuit should be thrown out because the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (search) ruled last year that Newdow did not suffer "a sufficiently concrete and specific injury" when he opposed prayers from being recited at Bush's first inauguration.

Newdow said his case is different this time because he actually has a ticket to attend the inauguration. He said being there live is different than four years ago, when he planned to watch the ceremony on television.

Justice Department lawyer Edward White scoffed at that claim, saying the issues in the two cases are the same and that Newdow still has not shown how he would be injured by hearing the prayer.

In an interview published in Wednesday's Washington Times, Bush, who converted from Episcopalianism to Methodism and prays daily, tried to dispel perceptions that he is advocating his beliefs or imposing them on anyone.

"I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that you're not equally as patriotic if you're not a religious person. I've never said that. I've never acted like that," he said.

Inaugural references to God date back to George Washington's inauguration in 1789. Christian prayers within the ceremony began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second inauguration in 1937.

Government attorneys defending the continued use of prayer said in court papers that "there is no reason to reverse course and abandon a widely accepted, noncontroversial aspect of the inaugural ceremony."

In court Thursday, they added that Supreme Court precedent allows state legislatures and Congress to open each workday with prayer.

Newdow countered that legislative sessions are quite different from taxpayer-financed public ceremonies.

A large part of next week's inaugural ceremonies is being paid for with private donations, though the federal government is picking up the tab for construction of the viewing stands and security.

In 2002, the 9th Circuit ruled in Newdow's favor concerning the "under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance. It agreed that the phrase, added to the Pledge in 1954, was an unconstitutional blending of church and state.

In June 2004, however, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision on a technicality, essentially sidestepping the core issue.

It said Newdow could not lawfully sue on behalf of his elementary school-aged daughter because he did not have custody of the girl and because the girl's mother objected to the suit.

Newdow re-filed the Pledge suit in Sacramento federal court earlier this month, naming eight other plaintiffs who are custodial parents or the children themselves.
 

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Always say your prayers just before you go to sleep. Always pray that your prayers don't offend someone else prayers. Since the world never did deside on what God, or who's God, or whoevers God is the best one. Your prayer may not be good enough. It might be wrong one. And when we say in God we trust. Where that come form? Witch God? It's strang how God was on Germanies side in WW II. I don't know how he got on ours to. Theirs must have been the bad one and ours the good one. Stupid arguments are they not. So why do some people try to make them worth a argument. Pray to your self. Believe in what you want. The country was founded so we all can think how we wish. I don't need anyone telling me thay are right about God. Or know what my kids should here in school. l Took care of that the right way my kids went to private school.
 

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The term god is only acceptable if it is used for a god that is deemed THE GOD that is what is believed by someone, but since none of us can actually prove that our god is the only one others should not be forced to give homage to your god. Religion has been the root of downfalls by many if not most great empires. Until someone can shoe without prejudice that their god is the correct one and that all others are wrong then we can all agree that we should pay homage to that god.
 

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Wayne:

Why am I not surprised that you have never been to San Francisco. My favorite town on the planet. Wifey and I go once a year for long weekend to remind us that not everyone is like the majority of German, republican, burr-hair cutted, ex-marine, right wing conservatives that populate helltown aka Cincinnati.

Its not the gays that attract us (although there is nothing wrong with that). Its the tolerant environment where people are accepted as people not based on race, sex, sexual preference, etc as is the norm in Cincinnati, the midwest (in general), and I venture to say, your hometown.

Eddie
 

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Hello Edward Thought you might be around today in obsevance of your national holiday--nice to have a day off-- as I am sure you did not take one during Christmas.

"Its the tolerant environment where people are accepted as people not based on race, sex, sexual preference, etc "

I noticed you forgot to add religion??

Maybe I'll stop there on your recommendation.
Some questions
1st On the sexual prefernce--if I brought a pet along do you think they would be safe in the next couple of years.

2nd Is it true it is customary to stop by morgue for cold one after work. ;)
 

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Wayne:

You can throw religion in the mix. Left out inadvertently. I work most holidays Wayne. Justice takes no holiday. I took Christmas off as it is my favorite season. For secular reasons of course.

I somehow knew you would be working today though. You save this holiday for later in the year (Hitlers birthday).

Hey, don't knock lamb if you've never tried it.

Eddie
 

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These folks that are on the far right tend to preach family values and religion as long as it both suits their beliefs in god since theres is the only one that is correct and on family values as long as it someone else's family values that come under scrutiny. We can reflect back to many examples of the far right crucifying someone for lapse in values but at the same time these same folks were not following their own mantra. Henry Hyde is a perfect example of this as he rose up the political food chain by preaching family values and was a attack dog against anyone whom he felt failed to live up to family values. You may recall Mr. Hyde he was the most vocal critic of William Clinton when the Lewinsky affair first became public knowledge. Mr. Hyde went into great attacks on Clinton, throwing out bible scriptures about spousal monogamy and even went so far as saying that Clinton had destroyed a generation of American Values by having an affair while married. Keep in mind that this was before there was any contention about perjury as this was just an outright attack fueled by funding from the far religious right based on family values and religion. The sad thing is that while Mr. Hyde was casting fire and brimstone at Clinton and basically sentencing to him for breaking religious values, at the same exact time Hyde was in the middle of a nine year affair that was exposed. the difference was that when Hyde was exposed the religious right never once attacked him with the same force as they did Clinton but they came out and said "Hate the sin and love the sinner," and they called Hyde a freedom fighter. Now you tell me whats wrong with this picture? How can two men have the same sin and yet one is anointed while the other is castrated? I could go on all day about just how dangerous these types of people are to the human race as the examples of the religious right preaching one thing and doing another is infinite. Hyde was not the only religious right winger that got snared in this during the Clinton impeachment hearings as I believe there were seven others! Look at the original Moral Majority whom started this trend of the Republican party to the far right, the original Moral Majority was founded by Jerry Falwell, James Kennedy,Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggert, Jim Bakker, James Dobson as the initial campaign raised over 4 million in 1980. Knowing what we know now would you want Swaggert or Bakker around your daughter? Would you Dobson to handle your monies? Would you want Jerry Falwell to mediate any racial disputes? This is why we need groups like the ACLU to protect us from morons like these and to preserve our rights especially our first amendment rights that groups like the Moral Majority would love to trash!
 

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Don't forget Newt. He and guys like O' Rilley do pay offs once put in corner. But try to lie first.
 

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MC will agree with you on the Bakers-Swaggerts ect but disagree that the move has been with these people and more than move of left is with the Kennedy ect radicals. The majority of both partys are not at the extremes.

To think that gay marriage is not natural--- child porn is disgusting--
religion is historic value of our culture--the pledge of allegiance is ok is not what I would deem to be extreme.

The ACLU's attack or promtion on these measures I would consider extreme.
and considering all the landslide victorys against gay rights by "we the people" trumping your activist judges I think the majority of moderates has spoken at about a collective 80% rate.
 

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Personally, I dont have any activist judges since I am neither Republican nor Dem and to lump all activist judges as Dems is insane as there are many activist judges on both sides, but again your taking a extreme topic such as gay marriage and lumping all whom voted to against gay marriage to be supporters of Bush which is not true. I voted against gay marriage on the Ohio ballot but I also would vote against any judge whom tried to force the wacko right religious wings views on me as I am sure the vast majority would also oppose except in the deep south. Although you continue to state your case about religion being a neccessity and historic value, you have yet to state what religion is acceptable and if was not your choice of religion would you still support it? Do you really believe that Bush could force his religious ideas on the country? Come on now, he only won by 2% which is hardly a mandate of support for his beliefs or the religious rights.
 
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