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5 September 2009 at 10:34:02 AM
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Last night I attended the Chet Edwards Regional Town Hall Meeting in Cleburne and noticed that the auditorium had, on two walls "In God We Trust" signs. I was really surprised and thought that perhaps Edwards had put up the signs in order to pander to the clearly John Bircher types that were heavily in attendance, but the signs were in the Cleburne sports colors. 
Why in the world is this sign (actually two signs) in a public school?
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 1 - James
5 Sep 2009 @ 5:18:37 PM
Why not, 80% of the public believes in God, let the other 20% live with it for a change. If the 20% want to pay all the taxes then they can put up a sign that says, In God we don't trust. How ridiculous, with the problems this country has to ban a healthy belief in God in a public place. I for one am sick of special interest taking over and getting a judge to overrule what would clearly be a majority vote. In short I would say it is there because they wanted it there, good for them.
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2 - Marcy
5 Sep 2009 @ 6:05:08 PM
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3 - Anononymous
6 Sep 2009 @ 9:22:37 PM
A very scary situation here in Tx.
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4 - Marcy
7 Sep 2009 @ 12:18:08 PM
I don't think a sign on a wall, a sign that represents the vast majority of the taxpayers in that community, is scary.
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 5 - salon
7 Sep 2009 @ 12:45:33 PM
@Marcy-speaking only for me, I'm not scared by it but I firmly believe in separation of church and state and was,as I said, surprised. Because also we have freedom of religion in this country, I don't have a problem with minority religious views in this country. And I know of at least one example where a school did make extra concessions for prayer for Muslim students and were shot down, as they should have been. How about an example or two of inappropriate concessions you believe were made for other faiths?
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6 - James
7 Sep 2009 @ 1:54:23 PM
Separation of church and state really needs to be clarified, I don't see where it means that no mention of God is to be enforced. If the signs had said in Jesus we trust, I can see where some would have a problem.
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7 - humanbeing
7 Sep 2009 @ 3:37:46 PM
The best way to bring God into your public schools is by teaching your children to offer love, kindness and tolerance of one another. God couldn't care less about the signs on the walls.
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8 - salon
8 Sep 2009 @ 10:55:34 AM
@James. Let me put it to you this way. Would you mind seeing this on the wall? 
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9 - Glen Rose Native
8 Sep 2009 @ 1:58:30 PM
I don't get it.
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10 - salon
8 Sep 2009 @ 2:21:52 PM
@Glen Rose native-I only happened to see it at Cleburne auditorium, but it was not Chet Edwards that put it up, apparenlty it was Cleburne ISD. Only reason Chet Edwards mentioned here is that happened to be the venue where I noticed it. Could equally have been going to see a school play.
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11 - James
9 Sep 2009 @ 11:17:49 PM
The first amendment does not include the phrase "separation of church and state". It reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.......
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12 - salon
9 Sep 2009 @ 11:43:31 PM
@James-origin. It's the *establishment* part in question. I was a Baptist before and Baptists in this country were the first ones to exercise separation of church and state-I don't think that's 1 for Baptists now. During the first half of the 17th century, when most of Europe was convulsed by religious wars, Roger Williams brought a powerful new idea into the world and even put it into practice: a wall between church and state. He set up a society in the American woods, the Colony of Rhode Island, where church and state were separated and no one faced persecution. The wall protected "God's garden" (the church) from the impure world and, at the same time, gave religious freedom to all.
IF there were no separation of church and state, every court case would have been decided in favor of religion. Here are some Supreme Court decisions
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