• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t that go against separation of church and state, and if this is government pushed, isn’t this a first amendment violation?

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
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        Fucking hate this. There is a local public meeting that starts with a prayer to the Evangelical God in Jesus’s name that I’m forced to attend because of my job. I hate being essentially compelled to participate in prayer. The SCOTUS precedent supporting this is 100000000% Christian bias.

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      1 year ago

      The way it was worded basically said that it had to be the national motto, thereby not making it a religious text to bypass the concerns you mentioned.

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      1 year ago

      Look at the dollar bill. America has never given two shits about the separation of church and state.

  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve seen this before, but I’ve never been able to verify it as being real.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Apart from this, what if you just donated several hundred posters at once? They all have to be displayed?

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      No. They’re not interested in playing fair or being consistent. They’ll simply warp the rules to fit their outcome and declare these posters noncomplaint. You can’t out-maneuver people who simply cheat.

      The assholes on that side of things are a mixture of those who actually believe and want the US to be a religious state, and those who simply are using religion as a method of control. That second group is happy to see religious conflict because a) it distracts from real problems while they consolidate money and power, 2) they can use the fervor to further solidify their support form that religious base.

      This is absolutely not new and has happened before in history. It’s just sad to see the US going down this path.

    • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee
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      I actually looked into this back when it was originally happening and the rules were fairly strict. It specified background color and wording but it didn’t give a language so this guy did about the best you could given the rules.

      However it would be a shame if someone printed a poster with UV reactive paint that changed to something else over time while it hangs.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Very slim chance this actually happened. There no actual photo of the flag, just a digital image that was created. Which means if it was not the creator of the flag, but a third person- they’d have a photo of the flag or in the least- not bothered recreating it in photoshop, but just describing it in enough detail. And if it was the creator that posted this- it wouldn’t be in 3rd person suggesting “someone” did this.

    Additionally, In the rare chance it did happen- it wouldn’t be enforced.

    • beneeney@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      What? You mean someone would just go on the Internet and lie like that?