home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u16244
- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:28:07 CST
- From: David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93025.012807U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: RELIGION AND PRESIDENTS
- References: <Ze4VXB4w165w@seanews.akita.com>
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <Ze4VXB4w165w@seanews.akita.com>, paulette@seanews.akita.com
- (paulette brown) says:
- >
- >Freedom of [from] religion ought to extend
- >to Presidents, too...
- >
- >Am I the only one in the US who thought it
- >was inappropriate -- if not downright
- >distateful -- to have Billy Graham and his
- >church prayers at the Inaugural?
-
- Assuredly not. I'd like to find out exactly where the money for all the
- religious cudgeling came from. I think a lot of people, not just atheists,
- would be upset to see their tax dollars ending up in church coffers.
-
- >
- >paulette@seanews.akita.com
- >
-
- dave
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
- He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for
- protection to his own" - Thomas Jefferson, 1814
-
- SEND E-MAIL TO : hanley1@earth.eecs.uic.edu
-