Mike Dworetsky wrote:
"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:2gq9ghF5fm49U1@uni-berlin.de...
From the article:
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Monday is the final day of the Legislature's 2004 regular session. The
legislators
have passed and Gov. Bob Riley has signed the state's $4.5 billion
education budget,
which fulfills half of lawmakers' constitutional duty.
Dozens of bills still have a mathematical chance of passing Monday, but
the General
Fund figures to be lawmakers' biggest concern.
. . . Four bills supported by the Christian Coalition of Alabama that
would: require
the display of "In God We Trust" signs in public schools; allow the Ten
Commandments
to be displayed on state property; prohibit gay marriage (a constitutional
amendment); and allow schools to teach creationism and other "theories of
origin,"
rather than evolution. The bill ordering the national motto to be
displayed in
schools requires Senate approval. The other bills require House approval.
Only the
"theories of origin" bill is on the proposed House calendar for Monday.
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Read it at
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/legislature.ssf?/base/news/1084699254159340.xml
or http://tinyurl.com/2rlpz
J. Spaceman
[Bewilderment]
I thought the national motto of the United States was "E Pluribus Unum".
It used to be, from the time of the American Revolution until the 50's,
when some groups thought the answer to all of our problems was to
sprinkle the word "God" wherever they could. It was officially
changed in 1956:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/nat_mott.htm
which is around the time that "under God" was added to the
Pledge of Allegiance.
I suspect that a lot of the crackers behind the change believed that
"E Pluribus Unum" translated to "In God We Trust", anyway. I think
a lot of my neighbors do.
The original motto still appears on the Great Seal
http://www.greatseal.com/symbols/index.html
Of course, that's the front of the seal. The back has that
weird pyramid with the eye, and the additional phrases:
Annuit Coeptis: "Providence favors our undertakings"
Novus Ordo Seclorum: "New Order of the Ages"
both of which have inspired Masonic/Illuminati/Jewish conspiracy
buffs for decades.
-E
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