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It seems strange to me how things change with new generations.

The older I get the less freedom I see within our country. One woman started it all and the rest of my generation let her get by with it and the Supreme Court acted as the Legislature and we let that happen also. No prayer in schools and legalization of abortion started the rights denial downslide in the country.

Example in Florida: Some friends just received a letter from their Landlord stating: People who rent a trailer in a trailer park, now are required to pay the regular monthly rental fee plus (a new law) they now must pay the property taxes on the property on which their rented trailer stands. Their bill is $200.00 plus their monthly rent.  See any denied rights in this law? Will they pay it, no they are moving! Enough of my rambling! Sorry, this whole issue of rights and freedom blows my mind at times! Keep writing,  faholo

posted by faholo on October 4, 2006 at 5:35 PM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x, I'm a Christian and I agree with you.

That the First Amendment is bi-directional, it protects religious freedom as much as it protects us all from a state-mandated religion.  I want to choose my own freedom to worship, not be dictated by the likes of a state religion like the Church of England, back in the days of the Declaration of Independence.

It goes both ways.  I do not want to be mandated on how and when to pray, and it is not an abridgement of our right to pray, to tell people not to have public observances of religious worship, in Federal buildings, because if we allow one we allow all, or we risk becoming a fascist extremist state as extreme as the mullahs of Iran and Iraq. 

I love my country, and I believe in God, but I believe in keeping the state out of religion and  vice versa.

BTW, you have two typos in your header and first line, shouldn't that read "or" rather than "of"? 

posted by Blanche. on October 4, 2006 at 4:23 PM | link to this | reply