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Kai et. al.<BR>
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Please explain how there would not be discrimination against a religion if the Kibbie Dome rented to Moscow Idaho's Christ Church for a worship service, yet denied the Aryan Nation Church the same privilege to worship in the Kibbie Dome?<BR>
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Or are you going to claim that the Kibbie Dome would allow the Aryan Nation Church to rent the Kibbie Dome for worship services? I doubt this, if for no other reason than that the public relations nightmare that would result would place the U of I in the national headlines in an unfavorable way.<BR>
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In this case of use of governmental property and facilities for religious worship, it seems clear there is a valid issue regarding the state being drawn into endorsing one religion over another, a situation that our constitution appears to forbid. <BR>
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Right?<BR>
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Or do you want the state to be allowed to endorse some religions and not others?<BR>
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If I missed where you addressed the above simple questions, I apologize in advance. But I have not read a response from you that directly answers the problems I posed regarding the Kibbie Dome renting for religious worship.<BR>
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Your numerous examples of "worship" on various kinds of public property quoted below, as an argument against the principle of separation of church and state, are off the mark, because those who argue for the principle of separation of church and state do not state that all uses of public property of any kind should be totally religion free.<BR>
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You are exaggerating the claims of the side of the argument you are arguing against, and then arguing against this extreme exaggerated position, that no one I know is arguing for!<BR>
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A common debate tactic, but not very fair, or intellectually honest.<BR>
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Kai wrote:<BR>
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"Picture the results if that view prevails: No more weddings led by a clergy<BR>
member on any public property, no religious funerals at public cemetaries,<BR>
no Easter Egg hunts in the parks or at the White House,no St. Patrick's Day<BR>
parades, no half-mad evangelicals shouting from street corners, no Krishnas<BR>
dancing and shaking their tamborines down the streets of Santa Monica and no<BR>
Mardi Gras in New Orleans."<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>