> Dakota wrote:

>> On 10/25/2012 12:58 AM, Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>>> "L. Raymond"  wrote in message
>>> news:18fkshwbw0wri.1gfefo0gclxqu$.dlg@40tude.net...

>>>> When this began making the local news a few weeks ago, that was my
>>>> first
>>>> thought.  Let a Moslem on the cheer squad propose a verse and see what
>>>> happens.

>>> But no Muslim did that.
>>> It was a Christian that did that.
>>> Why do you attack Muslims for what Christians are doing?

>> He wasn't attacking Muslims. He was drawing attention to the
>> double-standard. Christians don't have a problem with free speech if
>> they're doing the speaking. A Bible verse on the sash is fine with
>> them but they'd scream if the verses came from a different religion's
>> holy book.

> She, please.

> And you're right, of course.  Some years back when the
> Austin city council was going to OK pre-meeting prayers from local
> religious types, the idea was dropped when some Wiccans signed up to do
> it.  I have the horrible misfortune to be represented in the state
> senate by nasty, woman-hating, constitution violating scumbag who has
> droned on and on about religious freedom and the respect we own True
> Believers, who also walked out when an imam gave the daily invocation
> because he doesn't have to put up with that sort of crap:

>    "Afterward, Patrick told reporters that he chose to
>    step out during Kavakci's prayer because 'I didn't want
>    my attendance on the floor to appear to be an endorsement.
>    I think that it's important that we are tolerant of all
>    faiths. That doesn't mean we have to endorse all faiths.'"

> He never explained what he thinks either "tolerate" or "endorse" mean.

> The "Houston Chronicle" puts a bible verse on the editorial page every
> day.  I once wrote to ask why, if they feel the bible is a source of
> wisdom, they only use the lovey-dovey verses and nothing that involves
> smiting people.  The next week there was an editorial about how the
> verses were originally picked by a sweet little old woman who had worked
> for the paper for some 40 years, and after her death they just recycled
> the ones she had liked.  They also explained why they use only the bible
> and not any other stories, but I don't recall that part.

> Quote from:
> http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/bk/2007/apr/07/regarding_that_imams...