Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Example? Here's one that I don't find all that crazy:
"We can't pray in our schools, disturbing nobody, and yet Oregon just passed a law that allows people to actually have sex and masturbate on stage in strip clubs. Actually having sex!!! They said this is "protected free speech" and an "expression of an opinion." Give me a break."


This is a good point. The poster isn't talking about 'school prayer', or teacher lead prayer, he's talking about the ability to pray to yourself within a school building. You're not allowed to pray quietly to yourself in a school, but dancers are allowed to use phallic devices on each other, provided it's part of their 'artistic expression of dance', under the auspices of free speech. Yet I'm some kind of neanderthal 'fundy' because I agree with the poster and think that's going a bit too far?
Okay, two seperate points I want to address here, and I will do them in reverse order from your original post Don, if that's okay.

It's been questioned already, but I would also like to ask. Where is it law in the US that children are not allowed to pray quietly to themselves in school? If that is the case anywhere, I would like to go on record saying that I would disagree strongly with such a law.

But the comparison the original poster makes has no validity even if such a law exists. What strippers do in private clubs where patrons go by choice has no bearing on what takes place in a public school paid for by tax dollars where children are forced to attend.

Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
The website you posted takes some pretty extreme, ignorant and foolish fundamentalist statements, then lumps them with some that aren't so off the wall, and says they're all equal, anybody that's agrees with any of them must be a mentally challendged 'fundy'.
I agree. It is a very unfair portayal of Christians in general. Any time you deal in lowest common denominators, you will be making an unfair comparison.

There are many people that share some basic ideologies with me that I certainly wouldn't want "on my side" in a debate because the basis of their beliefs may be flawed or they might express themselves so poorly that they would be nothing more than a hindrance, no matter how "right" they may be.

Idiots are not specific to Christianity. Every group has them.

I understand your annoyance with this whole thread Don.