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Date Posted: 11:10:56 02/05/05 Sat
Author: bill
Subject: Or how about this?

A second bill was passed designed to allow the preaching and proselytizing of the Christian faith anywhere in the state including public schools. Under the bill, it would become a crime to deprive anyone of their right to preach the Gospel to the "Unsaved" anywhere in the state of Virginia.

The bill's sponsor said, "our founding father governor Patrick Henry said, 'We are a Christian nation' therefore our children need to be taught that in their schools and hear it in their streets lest they forget."

Ironically, one congressman pointed out a loophole in how the bill was worded that would allow a member of Al Quaida to legally stand in front of a classroom of children and teach that all Christians are evil heretics who should be murdered in their sleep because it is the will of Allah.

The sponsor replied, "Moslems can already do that in our schools; only discussion of Jesus is banned. Why shouldn't we have the same freedoms?"

Although the bill passed the Virginia house it's expected to eventually be declared unconstitutional... but again, why waste our tax payer money?

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[> yet another dry meaningless quote to bore your friends with at dull parties... -- bill, 11:16:37 02/05/05 Sat [1]

"As the Government of the United States of America is NOT, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen (Islam); and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."


- U.S. Treaty with Tripoli unanymously approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President John Adams on June 7, 1797


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