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Old 04-04-2007, 11:14 AM   #1
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Bah, you're weaseling like a lawyer.

I am a independent cab driver, ok?
I say, "No black person, because they are black, will be barred from my cab.

I have made no statement about anyone else but blacks, and you can weasel away, but I have not implied a damn thing about anyone.

If I were writing a constitution I would do the same. Besides why should they try to be sneaky? They were making the rules, they could do anything they wanted. Their concern, as was the framers of the federal constitution, that people would be discriminated for their religion, not lack of it.
Bruce, I have to agree with HM. The analogy would be more "No black US citizen will be barred from my cab". Leaves you open to bar black Norwegians from your cab.
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Old 04-06-2007, 10:15 PM   #2
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Bruce, I have to agree with HM. The analogy would be more "No black US citizen will be barred from my cab". Leaves you open to bar black Norwegians from your cab.
It doesn't say anything of the sort though does it? It says what it says, no more no less.
Well so does the PA law, it says religious people will not be discriminated against for public office, no more no less.
That's the trouble with this fucking country, weasels trying to twist things around to pull some bullshit, to fuck decent people for their own profit.
All the lawyers and politicians should become soap.
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Old 04-07-2007, 01:06 PM   #3
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It doesn't say anything of the sort though does it? It says what it says, no more no less.
And what it says is that only a certain type of religious sentiment is constitutionally protected from religious disqualification.
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