The Impaler's Wall

Susan Freiman susan.freiman.law.65 at aya.yale.edu
Mon Dec 17 00:53:25 PST 2007


I'd vote for him.  I defer to the wisdom of others here on the 
Constitutional question.

I guess we've entered the silly season.

Susan

Will Linden wrote:
>   Since people are worrying about "the right" having the nerve to extol 
> their own religion(s), I note that I got no reactions to this one back in 
> January, so i post it again::
>
>
>   Net.gossip is now giving its attention to Sharkey "the Impaler" 
> announcing that he is running for governor of Minnesota as the "Vampyre's 
> Witches and Pagans Party". (Any pagans present go yell at him, not me... 
> http://johnathonforgovernor.us), with a platform which calls for the public 
> impalement of "convicted terrorists".
>
>     I found on reading his agenda that he proposes to
>
>
> "erect the "Wall of Religious
> Beliefs" in the Capital. This wall will have everything
> from the Wiccan Rede to the 10 Commandments."
>
>   So, is this project considered sufficiently nondiscriminatory? Or would 
> it be assailed as an establishment of "religion", as opposed to irreligion? 
> Or does the aim of extolling religious freedom constitute an overriding 
> secular purpose?
>
>
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