Elvis Obama
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The Ten Commandments are OK, maybe, cause they starred in a Cecille B. DeMille picture once upon a time, so they're "cultural" symbols not "religious" symbols, or maybe they're not OK, because they don't have a sufficiently secular setting to make their cultural context clear, blah, blah, blah. And I will gladly pay you on Tuesday, for a hamburger today.And this would be an example of appropriate religious expression in government consistent with Establishment Clause jurisprudence.The money's got God on it. If we truly understood and embraced secularism we would never have judges putting religious symbols in courts. Judges. If our judges don't comprehend the value of the separation of church and state, how can we expect our ordinary citizens to understand it?
Such references to a deity on coinage or displayed in a court of law does not violate the First Amendment.
Let's say you are an American who proudly upholds their right to "freedom from religion"? How are you supposed to feel, going into a court of law, like something out of My Cousin Vinny, only to see your right to freedom from religion violated by the presence of religious symbols in the court building? The only symbol I want to see is Blind Justice.
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute..."
- JFK