PART 2

Hello
Have you ever heard of Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Catt,
Alice Paul, Martha Carey Thomas, Ida Wells-Barnett, Anna Shaw,
Ernestine Rose, Harriot Blatch, bigail Duniway, Anna Dickinson, Anna
Spencer, Annie Besant, Antoinette Blackwell, Arabella Mansfield,
Belva Lockwood, Charlotte Gilman, Emily Gowan Murphy, Emma Goldman,
Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Kelley, Leonora O'Reilly, Margaret
Sanger, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Nellie McClung Victoria Woodhull?

How about
December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks
The Little Rock Nine-Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,
1957. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, John
Lewis and James Zwerg, Emmett Till, Herbert Lee, Medger Evers, Addie
Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, James
Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Jimmie Lee Jackson, James
Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, Jonathan Daniels, Samuel Younge, Jackie Robinson?

and
Cesar Chavez?

What about
The Stonewall Inn, June 28, 1969.

Let's try
John Leland, Ethan Allen, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac
Backus, Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams, Charles Pinckney to name
just a few?

Let's try
Hank Greenberg, Francis Salvador, Haym Salomon, Leo Frank, Sigmund
Livingston, to name only a few ot thousands?

Do you know any of those people? Do you have any idea what they have
in common?

They were the pioneers, the shakers and movers, even though many if
not most were just ordinary people.

They were the people, the events that began many of the modern days
movements for equal rights,equal civil rights, full citizenship for
women, for blacks, for farm workers, for homosexuals. For religious
freedom for an end to anti-semitism, the list goes on as each
disenfranchised groups comes forth demanding an end to their second,
third, fourth class citizenship.

Now we have Michael Newdow who is another of the pioneers, the
shakers, the movers ranking up there along with Robert G. Ingersoll,
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Madalyn O'Hair, and many others standign up for
himself and all the skeptics, nonbelievers, nontheists, atheists,
agnostics, heretics, infidels, free thinkers, humanists, secular
humanists, brights. A pioneer equal to and with those others who
stood up equality, equal rights, full citizenship for their
particular groups,

And of course each of them received the same kind if hatred, disgust,
threats, actual violence aimed at many, violent death the rewards for
some for people just like you. People who blindly think and act just
like you.

This isn't going to go away. There will be loses suffered by Newdow
and others, just as their were losses suffered by your religious
right ultra conservative groups.
Your side lost the voucher battle in court case after court case after
court case from 1968 to 2003. Loss after loss, with only a few, very
few minor victories along the way.
But what did they do? They kept pushing the envelope, taking every
chance to file every court case they could, anywhere they could
knowing sooner or later they would find that right time and place,
the right makeup of a court specifically federal courts of appeal and
the US Supreme Court.

They finally won a victory with the Cleveland Voucher case. Not a
complete victory, and that victory has already been damaged perhaps
with the Locke v Davey ruling by the USSC. In addition, it doesn't
change any of the state constitutions that prohibit the use of
federal funds to support religion, religious schools or the teaching
of any religion.

But they will keep trying, that is what those who want to make change
do.

Newdow and others like him will come along and they too will keep
pushing, keep trying and one fine day they too will find the right
time, the right place and the exact right makeup of that U S Supreme
Court and they too will win.

Don't worry, it is far too early and the battles are
far from being over.