alarming new law?

[Steven Shiffrin]

I think the 9 votes against includes representatives who thought the 
Christmas resolution could be interpreted as a governmental endorsement 
of religion - not so with the other resolutions.



Jean Dudley wrote:

>Susan, email me privately for celebration details.  ;-)
>
>As for the unanimousity (is that a word?  It is now!) of the Ramadan  
>resolution, it had 42 votes of "present".   We may be straining at  
>gnats and swallowing camels here, but that hardly seems "unanimous"  
>to me.
>
>Jean
>On Dec 16, 2007, at Sun, Dec 16,  12:28 AM, Susan Freiman wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Jean, I'll be glad to celebrate with you, whatever holidays you like!
>>
>>I'd be interested to know how the Islam resolution passed unanimously,
>>and Christianity had nine votes against.  Maybe for Islam a lot of
>>Representatives were absent?
>>
>>Are we getting too far off topic and annoying people here?  If so, I'm
>>sorry, and I'll stop.
>>
>>Susan
>>
>>Jean Dudley wrote:
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>>
>>>On Dec 15, 2007, at Sat, Dec 15,  9:36 PM, Gordon James
>>>Klingenschmitt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Actually, Jean and Susan, you've already "lived long enough" to see
>>>>a House resolution like this passed honoring other
>>>>religions....including Islam....unanimously this year.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I stand corrected, Mr. Klingenschmitt.  Would you kindly cite the
>>>resolution numbers for the following honored religions?
>>>
>>>Wicca
>>>Buddhism
>>>Shinto
>>>Zorastrian
>>>Judaism
>>>Asatru
>>>Secular Humanism/Atheism (prolly not religions, but hey, I've heard
>>>Christians arguing that they were, so why not?)
>>>
>>>My point still stands.  In a country dominated by Christians, isn't
>>>it self-serving to "honor" themselves?  Especially in light of the
>>>recent attack on Jews in a New York subway by self-identified
>>>Christians?  Neither sounds very Christian to me.  Christianity is
>>>the default;  Our legal holidays are based on many Christian
>>>holidays.  Non-Christians are ridiculed, attacked, defamed and have
>>>to fight for our rights at every turn.
>>>
>>>Jean
>>>Blessed Yuletide in the names of the Oak and Holly kings, and the
>>>Maiden, Mother and Crone.  I'll see your Jesus, and raise you a
>>>pantheon.
>>>
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