In my city, from time to time, there are billboards and signs advertising religion. Nothing flamingly fundamentalist; just things like "Teenagers, rebel! Take your parents to church!" In 1999 there was an ad campaign pointing out that "the Bible is Y2K compatible." "If the lights go out, turn to the Light of the World." Cute stuff like that.
It occurs to me that, while there seems to be a law against having religious material in a government-owned area like a courtroom, there is no law against having religious material in a government-owned area like a city street.
So I think we can quit arguing over the whole issue. If a judge wants to display the Ten Commandments, all he needs to do is rent some billboard space in front of his courthouse.
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I find your comment funny because in La Crosse WI, a group took the government to court over having the 10 Commandments in a public park. The people in La Crosse got so fed up that another group made up signs with the 10 commandments that people posted in their front yard.
Yeah-- it seems that it's considered acceptable to have religious material in a public place, but just not if the government put it there. For instance, a big stone park decoration with the 10 Commandments carved into it would be considered government religious propaganda, but a billboard is private property and so you can put whatever you want on it.
Seems silly to me, though, because the effect is the same in both cases.
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