From: ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Two down... one to go!
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:46:34 GMT
Reply-To: ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH


In a previous article, chaneysa@nextnet.csus.edu (Stephen A Chaney) says:

>In article <1992Oct11.005949.11682@news.ysu.edu> ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller) writes:
>>
>>>I'm NOT ADVOCATING A THEOCRACY here, but... 
>>>
>>>What do you think about "In God we trust" on the back of the US Dollar
>>>bill?
>>>Isn't that a flagrant violation of Freedom of Religion, and if so, why
>>>don't you ask your representative in Congress to have it removed? 
>>>
>>
>>I believe it is a violation of freedom of religion, and I have written my
>>congressman (James Trafficant (D-17 OH), and my Senators (John Glenn, Howard
>>Metzenbaum) about this issue, as well as other issues of ideological freedom,
>>including the ritualized forced patriotic indoctrination of our school
>>children (the Pledge of Allegiance), and the insistence of some state courts
>>(Ohio not included) insistence that all witnesses take an anti-purgery oath
>>which requires placing ones hand on a bible, or saying "...so help me God."
>>as an affirmation. (Texas, Utah, ect.)
>
>Why is it that Bill Clinton and others won't follow you up on this? 
>

Why does it matter?  My opinions on the separation of church and state are my
own, and I have to answer to no one but myself.  Likewise, just because the
candidate I choose to support with my vote does not endorse  this one
cause I follow does not indicate that they follow none of them.

>>I have also actively protested the habit of the courts, in alchahol or
>>drug related cases, of including as part of the sentence requiring the
>>convicted person to enter A. A. or N. A. because of the serenity pledge
>>(God, grant me the wisdom...)
>>
>>Why do you ask?
>
>Because I just wondered if you will ever win over the American people
>with these ideas and if the American People support a consistent
>application of your cause.

On the first point, I'm not seriously concerned with whether the American 
people agree with my ideas.  I have to answer to my own conscious and values.

On the second point, I'm not really sure.  While I recognize that a majority
of Americans still subscribe to some manner of higher power, I also see a
growing dissatisfaction in that majority concerning the legislation of 
personal philosophy.

Perhaps my one candle of reason will never become a conflageration...
Or, perhaps it will...


>I also wanted to know if you support a consistent application of your cause.
>

I appreciate the scepticism.  So many times a person will talk the good fight,
but when they are asked about it, they say "no, I leave the work to others.  I
just bitch."

I do not fall into that category.


>
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