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Friday, December 22, 2006

Menorah envy

This sounds like a case of menorah envy, this time involving the state capitol and a request that a nativity scene be placed there.
Ron Wesselius, a real estate agent in Olympia, then proposed a creche, a display depicting the birth of Jesus that is the religious basis for Christmas.

“I had been thinking about it, but it’s one of those things – you don’t want to create waves,” Wesselius said Wednesday, “but when I saw the menorah was there, I thought, ‘Hey, why don’t I ask?’”
Ok, for starters, everyone read this.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And yes, it gets complicated. That's what happens when courts try to sort things out. And no, it doesn't always make perfect sense how they sort it out.

But really. Doesn't this guy have something better to do? He saw a menorah, which made him want to top it. That's pretty pathetic.

So what happens when devotees of the Flying Spaghetti Monster see the creche? There's no place for this nonsensical religious competition to end. So unless you want the Capitol walls covered in marinara, this needs to stop.

After the Sea-Tac Christmas tree dust-up, which revealed just how many nasty anti-Jewish bigots there are in the Pacific Northwest, this is about the last thing that we need to hear about.

As for freedom to practice religion, there are approximately ten thousand churches within 5 miles of where I sit right now.

Nobody is being prevented from worshiping and practicing their religion however they wish (within certain legal boundaries, like how many wives one can have.) People need to stop it with the Christian triumphalism, it's starting to border on supremacy. That's not how this country was set up.

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