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2004-06-13 | |||||||||
A strong legal argument can be made that the name of the city of Los Angeles -- even worse its formal name, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion" -- violates the constitutional requirement for separation of church and state.
"not at this very moment." Of course, 3 years ago noone would have seen a court fight over the cross on the LA city seal.
Not frequently enough. I quit ACLU after they spent huge bucks fighting a nativity scene in preference to helping some railroaded dope suspects. However, some attorneys and activists expect the ACLU or other groups to bring more challenges against cities and counties across the nation unless they remove crosses and other religious symbols on government seals and public property. "I think the ACLU may very well bring similar cases in future years all over the country," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Southern California. Hey, how about the pentagonal stars on our national flag, sacred to many religions? Since 1999, the ACLU, other groups and individuals have been successful in getting crosses on government seals removed in Los Angeles County, Redlands and La Mesa, Calif.; Zion, Ill.; Stow, Ohio; Bernalillo, N.M.; Rolling Meadows, Ill.; and Edmond, Okla. A federal court allowed Austin, Texas, to keep a cross on its seal after a legal challenge. We could always claim that the cross is a symbol of state, specifically Roman, power. Multicultists should like that.
Hmmm, what will they offer for a new name? Castrograd perhaps? Chomskystadt? Villa Chavez? PC power-seekers like clumsy termininology (since it forces everyone to go out of their way to accommodate PC-PS preferences). How about O’Hair-RamseyClarkberg? I’ve got it, Multicultistan. | |||||||||
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
#11 This kind of shit comes from asshats without enough work to do. |
Posted by: GK 2004-06-14 12:17:46 AM |
#10 What's that old joke from the Soviet Union? "Where were you born?" "St. Petersburg." "Where did you grow up?" "Petrograd." "Where do you live now?" "Leningrad." "And where would you like to live?" "St. Petersburg." |
Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-06-13 11:12:46 PM |
#9 Well, instead of "La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora Maria, Madre de Dios Y Reina de Los Angeles", we could just call it "Marysville". Oh wait. Taken. Damn... |
Posted by: mojo 2004-06-13 10:32:23 PM |
#8 I was afraid of this. After the county caved on the symbology of their seal, this is next. Next stop: Las Nadas |
Posted by: eLarson 2004-06-13 10:02:55 PM |
#7 D'oh Soledad's |
Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-13 6:52:41 PM |
#6 hrm? Post got truncated... The "AC" is starting to stand for "Anti-Christian" since they do not often (if ever) go after any other religions or cultures. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2004-06-13 6:48:28 PM |
#5 I'd enjoy the try to rename San Diego - we already've given up on Mt. Soldead cross |
Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-13 6:39:47 PM |
#4 Corpus Christi, Texas... Surprised the ACLU has not yet sued them either in their campaign to erase Christianity from US Public life. (the "AC" is starting to s Yet they don't bat an eye about fundamental liberty issues, like 2nd amendment cases, and some of the drug laws. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2004-06-13 6:30:03 PM |
#3 I firmly believe that the ACLU should be stripped of its non-profit status and be required to register as a political action committee. |
Posted by: RWV 2004-06-13 5:07:38 PM |
#2 lol! Santa Monica should be renamed Monica (that sucks) |
Posted by: B 2004-06-13 4:17:37 PM |
#1 There are precedents for this, of course. "Saint Petersburg" became "Leningrad" after a certain revolution many years ago, and many other religiously derived names were changed as well. It is Saint Petersburg again now, and the freedom-to-stamp-out-religion gang might do well to take heed from this turn of events. |
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-13 4:10:43 PM |