an establishment of religion?
Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Publius | No Comments
As I read another story of the courts ruling against a nativity scene ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570308,00.html ) I began to wonder, as we completely purge all religion from public sites are we not essentially establishing atheism as our state religion? By banning all religious symbols for fear that someone might confuse their presence as an endorsement, are we not going beyond perception and in practice establishing by force of law that the only allowable religion is a complete absence of religion? If the “free exercise thereof” must occur in private outside the view of anyone who might be offended, is the intended freedom of worship thereby protected or extinguished?
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