It's amazing that the taxpayers keep allowing their elected officials to
waste their tax money buying these monuments and then fighting in the
courts to display them. What a combination of ego & stupidity.
And then they have the unmitigated gall to call it "conservatism."
"By maintaining the separation of church and state the United States has
avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with
religious wars .... Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other
framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northem
Ireland, or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of
injecting religious issues into the affairs of state... The religious factions
will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to
them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to
make their views known without trying to make their views the only
alternatives... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of
state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we
mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles
of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic
republic." - Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 15 September 1981, Senate speech
Rich Goranson, Amherst, NY, USA (aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1)
EAC Ill-Legal Dept. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here"
"My country, right or wrong; to be defended when right and righted when wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson
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