What if no one's against it?
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is threatening a lawsuit if the Dixie County Commission doesn't reverse itself and remove a donated granite replica of the Ten Commandments from the county courthouse. The problem: the foundation can't find anyone in this rural county of roughly 14,000 Florida residents to participate in the proposed lawsuit.
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I'm sure someone is against it, but people get run out of town for speaking up against things like that.
Posted on January 3, 2007 11:53 PM
Absolutely true, Stew. Here's a link for a story of such harassment.
Posted on January 4, 2007 9:07 AM
By their very name, the "Freedom From Religion foundation" shows itself to be a self-righteous group of pharisees out to impose their religious views on others, even where they're not wanted. All, no doubt, in the name of tolerance and diversity, the idols of secular faith. If it were a group of Bible believers invading some county courthouse to force them to remove a copy of the Humanist Manifesto, you can bet your last copy of Richard Dawkins that the "Freedom From Religion Foundation" would be up in arms hollering "intolerance" and "censorship!" If they want to be free from religion, that's their choice; but they have no business carrying their crusade to a place where NOT ONE PERSON out of 14,000 is known to agree with them. As for the intimidation argument, if this were that sort of community, you can bet that at least ONE person would be angry enough about it to do something. But although you have no evidence that anyone is scared into silence, you'd rather believe that than believe a whole county can be faithful to God's Word. And good for them, I say.
Posted on January 11, 2007 11:16 PM
Steve,
You said:
"a self-righteous group of pharisees out to impose their religious views on others"
Who, the Dixie County local government? You must be referring to them, since the FFRF doesn't use government power to shove religious ideas down its citizens' throats. So you and I agree on that!
You obviously suffer a lack of basic reading comprehension when you say, "where NOT ONE PERSON out of 14,000 is known to agree with them". At the end of that article, it cites 2 people who they interviewed that disagree with them, you dolt.
The Humanist Manifesto is not displayed at any courthouses, and if it was, it is a secular (nonreligious) document, and so using the 1st Amendment against it is stupid.
Posted on January 21, 2007 9:18 AM