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	Lighten Up People

boniface

2-23-2007 7:59 PM

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religion, government, school, halloween

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f04d2a22-622b-41df-910c-2f59ec94991f/3ECB18CB-D9E5-4B38-8C96-66797FC7B32A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc" href="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mcall.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><H1>A boy's costume does not impose dogma by force</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><DIV>
There is nothing so evil, so clearly un-American, as the imposition of a particular religious dogma by force.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><DIV>
			 Traitors always seek to undermine that principle.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><DIV> It said a 10-year-old boy at a public school in Montgomery County was not allowed to wear a costume of his choice for the school's Halloween festivities — because the costume violated a policy banning the promotion of religion.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><DIV> At the same Halloween shindig, however, the Willow Hill Elementary School in Glenside allowed other children to dress up in costumes representing other religions. There were witches (the Wicca religion) and devils (Demonolatry), according to a lawsuit filed, on behalf of the boy in the Jesus costume, by the Alliance Defense Fund.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/columnists/all-5costume-afeb23,0,949954.column?coll=all-randomcolumnistsnews-misc"><DIV> A 10-year-old boy is not likely to pressure others to accept his religious dogma just because he wears a Jesus costume on Halloween. There is a difference between a boy and a Northampton County judge banging his gavel at people.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3ECB18CB-D9E5-4B38-8C96-66797FC7B32A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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