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A California Republican, Dan Lungren, wants to show a lot of folks the 'writing on the wall' at a cost of $100,000.
He wants to engrave the words"In God We Trust" and also the words to the Pledge of Allegiance in prominent spots at the Capitol Visitor Center .
The House of Representatives voted 410-8 to approve it.
Not good enough for the atheists and agnostics group that our representatives have voted this way, overwhelmingly! The atheists think they know what the public wants.
The Wisconsin -based Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc. has sued to stop the engraving.
The group is accusing Lungren of trying to force his religious beliefs on as many as 15 percent of all U.S. adults.
That 15% is "atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers, none of whom possess a belief in a god." I know some skeptics that still believe in God and some freethinkers who still come to the conclusion that God exists. I wonder how accurate that 15% is.
So, why is it that our representatives can't be considered as representing us?
And why do the 15% (we'll give the upper number) think they have a right to impose their belief system on the other 85%?
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Constitution?
Get over it!..you are the minority not the majority..are you going to make the US mint recall all the money. Listen, you don't have to agree with what this country was founded on, but you do , in my opinion have repect what the majority wants. Something feels very wrong with this group of people. NEXT!!!
Bunch of freaks with nothing to do but push their agenda...ok..be who you want to be..but what has been should remain ..and not because a bunch of nut jobs don't like something....go to church!
Some people push a personal agenda too far. No worries nothing will happen and these people can go home and worship their turnips or whatever they deem appropriate.
Put it on the ballot....that will take care of this.
I'm seeing a lot of quotes like this lately about this story:
"Get over it!..you are the minority not the majority."
This is stupid and entirely beside the point. Still, I dare you to say that to a Jew. Or better yet, a black man.
"The government of the United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."
- Treaty of Tripoli, the first international treaty signed by the US and endorsed unanimously by the Senate
Sorry, I don't see how leaving a blank wall blank could possibly be "impos[ing] their belief system on the other 85%"
That's being done by the ones who want to add messages that agree with their religion on the wall. The atheists are trying to keep the government neutral.
Lungren's proposal is unconstitutional, and never should have passed in the first place.
Freedom of (or from) religion isn't up for a vote. Our rights and freedoms aren't determined by majority rule.
How about I choose not to worship turnips or imaginary sky daddies, retard.
Oy. Failing to make references to gods and/or religions on a government building with taxpayer dollars does not "impose" anything on you or anyone else. It upholds the Constitution. What ever happened to "no graven images"? Or do you guys only care about imposing cherry-picked Bible verses on other people rather than actually following them yourselves?
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