Yeru, do you have a reference for the lawsuit? I would be interested in seeing it. Thanks.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
A Ground Zero Pic...
by SixofNine 24 Replies latest jw friends
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Yerusalyim
Haven't found it on the web yet...but heard it referenced on CNN, FOX, and ABC radio news.
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Yerusalyim
Haven't found it on the web yet...but heard it referenced on CNN, FOX, and ABC radio news.
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cruzanheart
Fantastic photography! You have the gift, Mark.
Nina
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SixofNine
t/y nina. This is kinda cool, the names etched on the steel:
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simplesally
Nice picture.......... Mark you should do this for a living!
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LyinEyes
Those are very moving pics Mark, thanks for sharing them.
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Victorian sky
Mark, love the picture
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Yerusalyim
OK,
I did find a reference to this Law Suit I mentioned before by American Athiests...which was Madlyn Murray O'Hare's group. I'll go back and get the link...and then return.
AMERICAN ATHEISTS ACTION ALERT
June 26, 2002
LETTERS, FAXES, PHONE CALLS NEEDED TO STOP "RELIGIONIZED" MEMORIAL TO 911 VICTIMS!
Unconstitutional "Miracle Debris Cross" at Ground Zero Would Violate Separation, Insult Atheists Says Johnson!
A government incorporated agency known as the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Company is considering plans for a permanent memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Religious groups are demanding that this memorial include religious symbols, especially the so-called "miracle debris" cross found in the wreckage.
In a letter to LMDC Chairman John C. Whitehead, American Atheists President Ellen Johnson noted that over $2 billion in public funds have been appropriated to various agencies, including the Development Corporation, for the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan and the "ground zero" location of the former twin towers.
"The presence of any religious monument, symbols, slogans, quotations, motifs or other characteristics in a memorial pertaining to the events of September 11, 2001 on property controlled by a government agency, using (directly or indirectly) government funds is violative (of the First Amendment) and other legal strictures protecting the separation of church and state..." warned Johnson
Public officials need to hear from you now! Any religious monument not only violates the Constitution, but insults and marginalizes millions of Americans who are Atheists, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and others of no religious faith! http://www.atheists.org/action/alert-26-jun-2002.htmlYa gotta love it...atheist fundamentalists.
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Valis
Yeru...I have always thought people who subscribe to O'Hare's type athiesm are full of crap and are either idiots or they are con artists like she was.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
