Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:47:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199708121647.JAA03555@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199708120652.AAA24368@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from "Wes Peters" at Aug 12, 97 00:52:27 am
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Wes Peters wrote: > > The actual text of the First Amendment to the Constitution reads: > > "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of > religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..." > > What exactly this means varies widely from person to person. I > certainly don't read this "You may not open a town meeting with a > prayer", but the ACLU office in Salt Lake City does. Weird how wrong > they can be sometimes, isn't it? ;^) whose prayer? which religion? what language? what is suitable to pray for? shall we vote on it :) what if i find 50 people that object to one of the choices above? 45? 40? 30? 20? 10? perhaps for these reasons the ACLU does not want to allow the majority to dictate to the rest of the people. jmb
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