considered a majority on this list?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:46 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Religious oppression in action
>
> Is it? I hope you were being sarcastic. If you were not then if the
> majority decided that you ought to become a eunuch, you'd agree with
> the decision then.
>
> Isn't the tyranny of the majority grand?
>
> larry
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:15:52 -0500, brobborb
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Obviously, there was enough religious people there to invoke such a
> law.
> >
> > Democracy at work. I'm fine with it.
> >
> > :)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Stanley
> > To: CF-Community
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:21 AM
> > Subject: Religious oppression in action
> >
> > Yes, that's right I was forced by laws written in the past to conform
to
> > someone elses religious views. I went into the local liquor store
> yesterday
> > to get some cokes and some Newcastle Brown Ale, and upon trying to
> check out
> > was informed that I could not buy the beer until after noon (it was
> > 11:35am).
> >
> > This law had to have been written out of "respect" for church going
> people,
> > or as a way to keep people from participating in imbibing while the
> rest of
> > the poor suckers were stuck in church. It would also explain why you
> cannot
> > sell alcohol from 9pm on Christmas Eve until 7am on the day after
> Christmas.
> >
> > Get these laws off the books. They are crap and we do not need
> them. Next
> > thing you know, I will not be able to recite the pledge of allegience
in
> > school without having to, oh wait; or I wont be able to look at the
> money in
> > my wallet without having to be oppressed. and before you bitch that
> it's
> > okay for "god" to be on there, tell me how you feel if it instead said
"In
> > Loki we trust", or "In Allah we trust". it's bs and everyone knows it.
> >
> > This gags me, as you can probably tell.
> >
> > --unrelated to rant above except for the religion bashing -- ;-)
> >
> > I heard on NPR a story today about an amendment to the KY
> constitution being
> > voted on about the gay marriage thing. They actually interviewed a
> woman in
> > support of banning it who went on and on about how we are not living
> the way
> > god intended us to and that the further we get away from god, the
> more
> > things get screwed up. Has she even studied history? Perhaps we can
> go back
> > to burning people for herasy or for casting spells upon their
neighbors.
> > Maybe we can go after scientists for claiming that the earth is round.
> The
> > further we move away from "it", the more tolerant of other people
> society as
> > a whole gets. Whatever label you put on it, whatever nice picture you
> paint
> > on it's face you cannot hide the centuries of fallacies and intolerance
> > inherent in most religions, especially amd most specifically the
> "dominant"
> > religion here in the US.
> >
> > Boy, I am in a pissy mood today....
> >
> >
>
>
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