An Attack Close To Home.....

[heartstrings]

They're trying to get our town's manger scene removed, thanks to the efforts of an editor at our local newspaper. One guy being interviewed, in the following report, says "the Bill of rights exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the  majority"....But I always thought it was to protect the majority from the elite few.... 

http://www.wmbb.com/story/24177280/organization-demands-removal-of-chipley-city-hall-nativity-scene?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9616400#.UqfrjWO-vss.facebook

 

...and this is the local editor who contacted the "Freedom From Religion Foundation"....

http://www.chipleypaper.com/news/local/regarding-the-chipley-nativity-scene-1.246716

[Miss Daisy]

Chipley! I took a class at the community college there about 20 years ago when I lived in Panama City!

[heartstrings]

Washington/Holmes Tech? 

[HappyChristian]

They're trying to get our town's manger scene removed, thanks to the efforts of an editor at our local newspaper. One guy being interviewed, in the following report, says "the Bill of rights exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the  majority"....But I always thought it was to protect the majority from the elite few.... 

http://www.wmbb.com/story/24177280/organization-demands-removal-of-chipley-city-hall-nativity-scene?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9616400#.UqfrjWO-vss.facebook

 

...and this is the local editor who contacted the "Freedom From Religion Foundation"....

http://www.chipleypaper.com/news/local/regarding-the-chipley-nativity-scene-1.246716

It's actually there to protect the people of the US from the overweening power of the federal government.  Using it to try and remove a nativity scene is unconstitutional at best.  Here are some links from which you might glean some info to write a letter to the editor if you are so inclined.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/billflax/2011/07/09/the-true-meaning-of-separation-of-church-and-state/

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/10/1920/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987191/posts

 

It's likely all stuff you've already read, heard, or know.

[heartstrings]

Thanks

I may just do that.

[Miss Daisy]

sounds right. don't remember off top of head. it was 20 years ago. I just remember it being a long drive from PC!

[ASongOfDegrees]

They're trying to get our town's manger scene removed, thanks to the efforts of an editor at our local newspaper. One guy being interviewed, in the following report, says "the Bill of rights exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the  majority"....But I always thought it was to protect the majority from the elite few.... 

http://www.wmbb.com/story/24177280/organization-demands-removal-of-chipley-city-hall-nativity-scene?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9616400#.UqfrjWO-vss.facebook

 

...and this is the local editor who contacted the "Freedom From Religion Foundation"....

http://www.chipleypaper.com/news/local/regarding-the-chipley-nativity-scene-1.246716

So having a manger scene is an example of tyranny of the majority over the minority?

[Salyan]

So having a manger scene is an example of tyranny of the majority over the minority?

Of course...
Because we all know the vast numbers of Christian fundamentalists out there who are ramming their religion onto those poor, few, neglected atheists.
:rolleyes:

[John81]

Of course...
Because we all know the vast numbers of Christian fundamentalists out there who are ramming their religion onto those poor, few, neglected atheists.

Actually, since so many Christians, including fundamentalists, so openly and clearly yoked themselves to the Republican Party and made their biblical views a matter of partisan politics, many atheists, liberals and others view Christian fundamentalists as attempting to force their views upon everyone through politics.

[HappyChristian]

No, John, it's because the world hates Christianity and Christ.  (and it doesn't help that Christians and the lost alike don't understand what the Constitution is all about!)

[heartstrings]

^Psalm2

¹ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

[HappyChristian]

 

^Psalm2

¹ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

 

[Invicta]

I can't see how any christian would want a manger scene.

[Salyan]

Yet, apparently, they do. There's no need to say stuff like that. It's unnecessarily combative. There is nothing unScriptural with a manger scene; yet, if people feel there is something wrong with it, they have the liberty to eschew them. 

[JerryNumbers]

They will likely bow to them fearing if they do not they will suffer & it will cost them many $$,$$$,$$$,$$$.$$.

 

If the world only knew the truth they would know that they're the majority.