--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/11/06 6:30:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Yes, I mentioned one earlier. Liberals are the first to want to > > censor the mention of a deity in public settings such as school. > > That would be publicly funded schools, i.e., those > funded by the federal government. See the > "establishment" clause of the First Amendment. > > > Liberal judges have been > > known to threaten graduating school children with jail time > > if they so much as mention the name of Christ in a valedictorian > > speech. It happened here, in Galveston, just a few years ago and > > continues to be an issue every year. That is censorship. > > I could have sworn I pointed out to you that this > kind of thing is a conflict between two aspects of > the First Amendment, and that these conflicts are > always very tough. No solution is going to please > both sides. If it leans toward free speech, it leans > toward violating the establishment clause, and vice > versa. > > Cite an instance of liberals advocating censorship > that does *not* involve a conflict of constitutional > rights. > > > > > > (CNSNews.com) - A liberal group that monitors conservative media wants > Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remove radio talk show host Rush > Limbaugh > from the American Forces Radio and Television Services, formerly known as > Armed > Forces Radio. > > As for your comment regarding students giving a valedictorian speech and > mentioning a deity whether to give thanks or whatever, that is not the > "establishment of a religion". That is one persons opinion in their own > speech which > is guaranteed under the first amendment. Do you think the congress is > violating the first amendment when they open each cession of congress with > an > invocation? Certainly if they were it would have been stopped by now. The > fact that > you would oppose free religious speech in a forum involving federal tax > dollars means you advocate censorship.By the way here is the first > amendment, > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or > prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, > or of the > press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the > government for a redress of grievances. Read the whole thing. One can speak > about God all he wants on federal property as long as the government doesn't > create a law establishing that or any other religion. To advocate a position > in > which one can not invoke or talk about a deity, anyplace, is PROHIBITING THE > FREE EXERCISE THEREOF and that is censorship of free speech. >
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