Reply #57: Sorry, sweetie, but you're wrong on this [View All]

[lastliberalintexas]

"Here's the problem... When such religious displays are permitted on public property, then it's the same as government endorsement of that religion. What part of the separation of church and state DON'T you understand??"


That's not the way it works. The government can't discriminate based on the content of the speech. Once they've opened up a public place as a public forum (and most parks are considered as such), all who wish to speak must be heard by the government. So long as the city allows all who wish to erect some sort of display to do so as well as these Christians, then it's constitutional. The article said that no tax dollars were expended for this project, and until another sect or religion is refused access, there was no violation.

This group has a very bad lawyer giving them bad advice or else they're disrupting for the sake of disrupting.