{"id":19794,"date":"2013-07-21T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T12:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2013-07-21T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T12:35:38","slug":"i-guess-it-depends-on-which-religion-you-want-to-be-free-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19794","title":{"rendered":"I Guess It Depends On Which Religion You Want To Be Free From"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Breitbart.com<\/a> posted an article about the proposed Ohio Holocaust<\/a> Memorial. The Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/a> (FFRF) wants to remove the Star of David<\/a> from that memorial.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In a June 14 letter to Richard H. Finan, chairman of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, two FFRF officials said they have no objections to a Holocaust memorial at the statehouse, but claimed that the cut-out version of the six-pointed Star of David would be a violation of the separation of church and state as provided for in the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPermitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol\u2026 would create the legal precedent, for instance, to place an equally large or larger permanent Latin cross on Capitol grounds,\u201d wrote Dan Barker<\/a> and Annie Laurie Gaylor<\/a>, co-presidents of the Madison, Wisconsin<\/a> group. Gaylor is the daughter of Anne Nicol Gaylor, author of Abortion Is A Blessing<\/a><\/em>. Barker said that the Holocaust memorial, as currently proposed, would amount to a \u201cconstitutionally problematic endorsement of religion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I realize that people other than Jews were sent to Concentration Camps and executed, but we need to realize that the majority of the people killed by the Nazis were killed because they were Jewish. When the Nazis took over a country, they forced the Jews to wear the Star of David on their clothes in order to separate them from the rest of the population. The Star of David played a very important role in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

But let’s look at some of the past work of the FFRF. The article reports:<\/p>\n

In March 2012, the FFRF also placed an anti-Catholic ad<\/a> that was published by the New York Times<\/a><\/em>. The ad, which criticized the Church\u2019s position against ObamaCare<\/a>\u2019s HHS mandate<\/a>, stated, \u201cIt\u2019s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church<\/a>. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ad accused<\/a> the Catholic Church of promoting \u201cacute misery, poverty, needless suffering, unwanted pregnancies, overpopulation, social evils and deaths.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an appeal to Catholic women, the ad asked, \u201cApparently, you\u2019re like the battered woman who, after being beaten down every Sunday, feels she has no place else to go.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to the publication of the FFRF ad by the New York Times<\/em>, Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs\u00a0submitted an ad along the same lines to the Times<\/em> entitled, \u201cIt\u2019s Time To Quit Islam<\/a>.\u201d The Times<\/em>, however, rejected<\/a> Geller\u2019s ad because \u201cthe fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and\/or civilians in the [Afghan] region in danger.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Catholic Church never told its female members that it was okay for their husbands to beat them. The Catholic Church never forced women to cover themselves from head to foot before they went outside. The Catholic Church has never advocated the hanging of homosexuals. Why is there a double standard here?<\/p>\n

The Holocaust directly involved the Star of David. To exclude the Star of David from the memorial is another form of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

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