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MHW --- this is just an example of why...
I love you. I read your comment and was surprised. But I figure everyone's entitled to a bad day, and I noticed that people were giving you a hard time. It takes a pretty strong person to apologize like you did. You are a prince among men. Consider yourself hugged by your #1 fan.
posted by
editormum
on April 13, 2005 at 6:56 AM
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Editormum, I owe you a great-big apology. Yesterday, when you commented on
my post, I completely misunderstood what you were conveying to me, and that prompted me to respond to you in a very "smart-mouthed" way. I am very, very sorry.
Anyway, this is a terrific post and if you don't mind, I am printing the article so I can keep it as a reference for some of my future writings (not for the writing I do here on Blogit, but the writng I do outside of here).
In addition, the manner in which you explained the "separation between church and state" issue is one of the best displays of writing I have ever seen on Blogit.
posted by
Feenix
on April 13, 2005 at 4:44 AM
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Your thinking and mine seem to be running in the same gutter today.
I guess I shouldn't say the gutter, but rather we think alike. I wrote an article for my own publication saying nearly the same things last year. Your blog was very good and I enjoyed it.
posted by
RAME
on April 12, 2005 at 12:26 PM
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When it comes to displays, how about the following:
1. One area.
2. Rotate the displays.
3. Reserve the slots a year in advance, divide the time evenly, and draw lots for the order of presentation; a swap period could be arranged afterward.
4. No sub-letting of their time to other churches, Microsoft, or the Great Pumpkin.
I'm pretty well on board with you regarding the Founding Persons.The next step past Mary and Cromwell was Henry the Eighth's state church with himself as vicar, so to speak; after that, full-fledged State Theocracy, the leader as Godhead. People now forget that, as men of faith, many or most of our founders had more than an intellectual interest as to who could excommunicate them or mobilize a competing Christian sect to start an American Reformation.
And as for the judge buying annd putting up the ten commandments on his own hook in "his" courthouse, maybe he could have put them in his chambers. Right next to his rebel flag. If he'd done the same with flowers or a plain fountain, he was still pissing on his bosses's shoes 
to show them whose courthouse it was, and they let him know it wasn't his.
posted by
majroj
on April 12, 2005 at 12:09 PM
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