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	<title>Comments on: If the ACLU was serious about the establishment clause</title>
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		<title>By: tgirsch</title>
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		<dc:creator>tgirsch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Uncle:&lt;/b&gt;

They may yet, although I&#039;d expect &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.au.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AU&lt;/a&gt; would be more likely to do so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Uncle:</b></p>
<p>They may yet, although I&#8217;d expect <a href="http://www.au.org/" rel="nofollow">AU</a> would be more likely to do so.</p>
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		<title>By: joe public</title>
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		<dc:creator>joe public</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It may have changed by now, but years ago one could not buy alcohol on Sunday in Massachusetts.

I have close (though officially severed) ties to the Seventh-day Adventist community, so I know full well that they are opposed to ordinances such as this (but alas, when they get to run the show, as in Collegedale, TN, some of them get up in arms if there is, say, garbage collection on a Saturday).

Religious freedom has always been big in the SDA denomination.  For one thing, they have traditionally taught that the End of Time™ will be brought about by apostate Christianity* merging with civil government and imposing a national Sunday law (complete with death-penalty consequences if it&#039;s broken).

(*apostate, that is, in their view -- but you&#039;ve gotta think that some of them are quite skeptical of the GWB government)

So, now that I&#039;m a secular heathen, I defend the separation of church and state from two perspectives, because I can see the SDAs&#039; point, even if I disagree with its origins.  Not to mention the Jews&#039;, the Muslims&#039;, and anybody else&#039;s who isn&#039;t a mainstream Christian.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may have changed by now, but years ago one could not buy alcohol on Sunday in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>I have close (though officially severed) ties to the Seventh-day Adventist community, so I know full well that they are opposed to ordinances such as this (but alas, when they get to run the show, as in Collegedale, TN, some of them get up in arms if there is, say, garbage collection on a Saturday).</p>
<p>Religious freedom has always been big in the SDA denomination.  For one thing, they have traditionally taught that the End of Time™ will be brought about by apostate Christianity* merging with civil government and imposing a national Sunday law (complete with death-penalty consequences if it&#8217;s broken).</p>
<p>(*apostate, that is, in their view &#8212; but you&#8217;ve gotta think that some of them are quite skeptical of the GWB government)</p>
<p>So, now that I&#8217;m a secular heathen, I defend the separation of church and state from two perspectives, because I can see the SDAs&#8217; point, even if I disagree with its origins.  Not to mention the Jews&#8217;, the Muslims&#8217;, and anybody else&#8217;s who isn&#8217;t a mainstream Christian.</p>
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		<title>By: Yosemite Sam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yosemite Sam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In supposedly secular Massachusetts, you can&#039;t hunt on Sunday. I wonder if the ACLU would take a case challenging that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In supposedly secular Massachusetts, you can&#8217;t hunt on Sunday. I wonder if the ACLU would take a case challenging that.</p>
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