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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOutrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and ...
http://www.alternet.org/belief/outrageous-attacks-supporters-church-state-separation-death-threats-murdered-pets-andOutrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and Vandalized Property
When it comes to the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment, which forbids the establishment of a state religion by the government even if a majority supports it, is something most of us heartedly support.
But not all. The religious right despises the First Amendment, since it's constantly foiled their efforts to inject Christian doctrine into government. And when they've lost in court, religious conservatives in the U.S. have often waged campaigns of threats, harassment and outright violence against First Amendment plaintiffs, in the hopes of intimidating them into backing down and achieving by mob violence what they can't achieve under the law.
Last year, the Freedom from Religion Foundation contacted two public school districts in Pennsylvania, in New Kensington and Connellsville, to demand the removal of large stone Ten Commandments monuments prominently placed on school property. When the schools chose to fight, the FFRF and its local plaintiffs, including current students, filed a lawsuit.
As often happens in these cases, FFRF plaintiffs asked to have their identities concealed because they feared harassment and retaliation from the community. It was a well-founded fear, since some of them had already been receiving threats on social media. On a Facebook page supporting the New Kensington school, one person encouraged others to "slam the shit out of the bitch" who filed the lawsuit. Another commenter asked, "Have the families involved in the lawsuit been identified? I cannot believe anyone living in the community would participate in such a worthless cause. Someone needs to send that group back to Wisconsin with several black eyes!"
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Outrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and ... (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2013
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. Such good Christians... nt
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)2. Can't you just feel the spiritual love...nt
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byeya
(2,842 posts)3. Sounds Christian t o me: "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not
to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law..."