Bradford County Florida - religious displays

[faethor]

Community Men’s Fellowship gave Bradford County, Florida a 10 Commandments display. A religious separation lawsuit was duly filed Bradford asked the religious group to remove the graven image at their expense. They prayed and said God said no. The County doesn't want to do this as that'd be a cost to tax payers.

So the 'fight' is on an atheist monument is on the way.
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Following a settlement with Bradford County, Florida, American Atheists will unveil a new monument in front of the Bradford County Courthouse: a 1,500-pound granite bench engraved with quotations from Thomas Jefferson, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Benjamin Franklin, and others. The bench will sit adjacent to an existing monument featuring the Ten Commandments.
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The monument features an excerpt from the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John Adams, which declares “The United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion”; and excerpts from the Bible, quoting the biblical punishments for breaking each of the Ten Commandments — many command death."

Unveiling is June 29th. I wonder if Red can go take some pictures of the two of them together.

 

[cecilia]

The divisive piece of rock has been the source of protests and counter-protests, not so much for what it says, but where it's saying it: right in front of the Bradford County Courthouse.

"If you don't believe in it, it's just a hunk of granite. If you do believe in it, it's something spiritual to you," said Joy Petersen, who supports the religious monument.

it's not that I 'believe' the bullshit on the stone, it's that I believe the ideas written in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution - which these idiots clearly do not.

 

[cecilia]

oh, fear not....the atheists will get pictures up...and I'll find them