re: #14 Flavia

Pardon me, I thought I had made it clear that the scheduling showed a complete disregard for the actual holiday he is pretending to celebrate.

I don’t get why you feel that shows a complete disregard. I’ve celebrated holidays on different days, when I couldn’t do them on the days they were supposed to.

So what?

Anyone who actually cares about Judaism & the constitution. Anyone who doesn’t like to see religion prostituted for private gain. Those people.

I care about the constitution. How am I hurt by this? You mean, because we should have stricter separation of church and state than we do?

So because you don’t care, no one else should?

No, I’m asking if your position is an absolutist one of separation of church and state— because if so, this seems rather the lesser of many breaches of that separation that are currently ongoing. Like the many laws we have on the books derived from the Christian religion.

Another Lizard made the compare/contrast; I disagreed with it.

Maybe you should post to her, then, eh?

I think the point she was making was how far Jews have come in acceptance in American society, rather than an either/or choice.

You seem to be taking, in the end, an absolutist separation of church and state position, which would mean, taken to the logical extreme, that if a politician said “I believe in god” using a public microphone paid for with public dollars, you’d object to that. is that true?