This is only the beginning. What if a group wanted to install a statue of Mohamed? I don't think that would be permitted. Or what about a statue of David? Insanity abounds in America.
But yet you defended the right to force religious genital cutting on minors (circumcision) in 2011. It’s obviously only legal due to religious pressure as the supposed benefits would be completely unjustifiable for other damaging surgeries, and sadly often done just for profit today
They need to be on Church grounds unless they decide to make Anthony Fauci a Saint The entire process is archaic and political. Visit the Saints on Church grounds
Why don't you ask the Church of Satan if they've got an extra Baphomet they can lend you for a few months? Installing that ought to clear those saints out in no time.
I’m a cradle Catholic who breaks out in hives when the state sponsors, endorses, promotes or otherwise gets into bed with any religious institution. I abhor prayer in public schools and have a fervent belief in the separation of all churches and the state
Would it be ok if they weren’t saints? Most saints are just good people who never asked to be saints: Not sure if something they can’t control should be held against them.
Fuck the statues they aren’t hurting anyone, don’t you have more important stuff to be doing? I feel like everyone in this country has lost their mind.
GOD doesn't exist. Stop with the BULLSHIT already. All these GODS have no place on earth. Start believing in yourself, instead of hoping on someone else to do it for you.
As a Quincy resident & taxpayer I appreciate your work to force our out of control mayor from constantly wasting taxpayer money and increasing our debt
He purposely hide his plans because he knew residents would not approve. Are there any police or fire stations with statues of any kind installed?
Does it depend upon what the meaning of the word "creeps" is?
Come to think of it, the atheist Unitarian Universalists who threatened me with prosecution for #BlasphemousLibel for blogging about #UUpedophiles & #UUrapists are creeps. 🤣😇
They should not be on public property if saints did not do anything that did not further the public interest. If however this is in homage of public service then it should not matter if they are Catholic saints.
The Catholic church should pay for their political meddling. Did you know that the Netherlands banned the Catholic church for 200 yrs.? For good reason.
Quincy’s City Council was never even given a chance to vote on spending $850,000 of taxpayer money on them. The decision was all Mayor Thomas Koch’s. Stop the easy ones before the testing ground grows! Those saints weren’t Quincy citizens.
I have argued with people long before Trumpism about the separation of church and state. They insisted their religion was benign and harmless and I argued it's a slippery slope.
I wonder if those folks I argued with back then get it now, cuz that slippery slope is now an effing water park.
It seems clear that this is a ceremonial deism case and that, in the context of police and fire department headquarters, these figures have taken on a meaning beyond a purely religious one. The city, rightfully, is going to win under American Legion v. American Humanist.
Correct, but this case will take place in a court where all that matters is what higher courts have said on the subject. And, after great debate and argument, the winning argument that came out was that symbols can have multiple meanings because they're just that, symbols.
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Two little brass saints, a Buddha, a Bodhisattva, the Hindu pantheon, a Chinese dragon, a Popokapeli, etc.
Be thorough.
Oh stop.
Religion is just a business.
And a tax exempt business at that.
Do they really need more handouts?
I’d be fine with using that money to house the unhoused and feed the hungry.
Bet Jesus would too… if he was real
MAGA Catholics are a thing here.
He lives in my heart :)
Spend your money and time on higher priority matters.
Who's the patron saint of recklessness?
Is there a shortage of Churches that I'm not aware of?
He purposely hide his plans because he knew residents would not approve. Are there any police or fire stations with statues of any kind installed?
All hail, the line!!!
Come to think of it, the atheist Unitarian Universalists who threatened me with prosecution for #BlasphemousLibel for blogging about #UUpedophiles & #UUrapists are creeps. 🤣😇
https://emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2014/02/blasphemy-law-blasphemous-libel-misuse.html
#UUism #UUA #CSA
$800k on these and have them installed. Shameful.
I wonder if those folks I argued with back then get it now, cuz that slippery slope is now an effing water park.
I'm not out here just nodding my head to every stupid thing governments are doing.
Don't you have bigger issues on your plate?
Most actually prefer worshipping the anti-Christ (Donald J. Trump) which is ironically allowed on government property.