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Debate:Should public displays of the 10 Commandments be allowed under the constitution? (view source)
Revision as of 01:50, March 25, 2007
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Amendments can be amended. The fact that we can all legally enjoy a beer is proof (except for you college freshmen and sophomores in New York State)
Amendments can be amended. The fact that we can all legally enjoy a beer is proof (except for you college freshmen and sophomores in New York State)
:::<s>Spoken like a true person-who-has-recently-attained-the-age-of-majority! Me, I can legally ''consume'' a beer. But enjoy? After years of bracing myself, swallowing the stuff, trying hard not to wince, and learning to say "Ahhh! That hit the spot" as if I meant it, I finally concluded that I don't actually ''like'' the taste of spoiled yeast dying in its own waste products. (Now, milk overgrown with lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria? Mmmm, good. A burned slab of mangled muscle tissue from an immature castrated cow? Yes, and give me fries with that.) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:36, 24 March 2007 (EDT)</s>
:::<s>Spoken like a true person-who-has-recently-attained-the-age-of-majority! Me, I can legally ''consume'' a beer. But enjoy? After years of bracing myself, swallowing the stuff, trying hard not to wince, and learning to say "Ahhh! That hit the spot" as if I meant it, I finally concluded that I don't actually ''like'' the taste of spoiled yeast dying in its own waste products. (Now, milk overgrown with lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria? Mmmm, good. A burned slab of mangled muscle tissue from an immature castrated cow? Yes, and give me fries with that.) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:36, 24 March 2007 (EDT)</s>
:::Yikes! I just found out that Andrew Schlafly's mother's nephew—would that be a second cousin?—Tom Schlafly, runs [http://www.schlafly.com/faq.shtml Schlafly Beer], a craft brewery in St. Louis, that even brews [http://www.schlafly.com/beers.shtml beer made from sorghum]. I guess I'd better stop making negative comments about beer, huh?
:::Yikes! I just found out that Andrew Schlafly's mother's nephew—would that be a second cousin?—Tom Schlafly, runs [http://www.schlafly.com/faq.shtml Schlafly Beer], a craft brewery in St. Louis, that even brews [http://www.schlafly.com/beers.shtml beer made from sorghum]. I guess I'd better stop making negative comments about beer, huh? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:50, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
:Well actually the example here is misleading. Prohibition wasn't amended, it was repealed. Amendments aren't amended, the constitution is. The bill of rights is not going to change. It is the moral fabric of our constitution. Separation of church and state was made as a result of the religious persecution of christian sects in England. There is no need for a secular government to display any religious paraphernalia of any kind.
:Well actually the example here is misleading. Prohibition wasn't amended, it was repealed. Amendments aren't amended, the constitution is. The bill of rights is not going to change. It is the moral fabric of our constitution. Separation of church and state was made as a result of the religious persecution of christian sects in England. There is no need for a secular government to display any religious paraphernalia of any kind.
:By the way, by "public" I assume this article means government buildings and property as "public", and not public demonstrations by private citizens.
:By the way, by "public" I assume this article means government buildings and property as "public", and not public demonstrations by private citizens.