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Posted by Shelly on 09/19/07 23:34
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Those who won't let me pray on school grounds, for instance. A perfect
> example - when I lived in Raleigh (NC), our church had a fire (old
> wiring). For a while we rented a junior high gymnasium for our Sunday
> services while the church was being renovated. Then an atheist group
> threatened to sue the country Board of Education for allowing a religious
> group to meet on school property.
>
> This was a publicly owned building, and open to any other group willing to
> pay the same rent we did. But even though we were members of the public
> and payed the taxes to build the building, we were barred from using it
> during non-school hours, when no one else was around, because we were
> holding a religious function.
I see now where you have been grinding your axe.There were valid, legal, and
constitutional alternatives available to you.
For example, in many cases where the Jewish community is small and they meet
in some small space all year, when the high holy days come the attendance
increases fifty-fold. Where do you hold the services? Most cases that I
have heard of the solution was that a friendly church would rent, or even
give, them the use of their building. Where I live now in Central Florida
the Jewish community just built a new synagogue. Prior to its completion
the Methodist Church offered their building for use on the holidays.
When there were bombings of black churches in the sixties, there were white
churches that offered their buildings for shared time for services. (Isn't
that terrible even to have to use those adjectives!)
There is absolutely NO need to cross that slippery slope into the arena of
government interference.
By the way, where DID you hold those church services? I assume you found
some private or religious facility.
Shelly
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