The cross in the Mojave

At one point late in the arguments in Salazar v. Buono, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Peter Eliasberg, in challenging the placement of the cross on public land, suggested the cross honored "just Christians." Justice Antonin Scalia, who is Catholic, angrily interjected, "The cross doesn't honor non-Christians who fought in the war?" He added, "I assume it is erected in honor of all of the war dead. The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of the dead."
To which Eliasberg replied, "The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of Christians. I have been in Jewish cemeteries. There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew."
Scalia's quick retort was, "I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion."
One lawyer in the audience said that when Scalia asserted that the cross was the most common symbol of a resting place, "You could audibly hear people breathing in." Jeffrey Pasek of Cozen O'Connor, who authored a brief against the constitutionality of the cross for the Jewish Social Policy Action Network, added, "A lot of people were surprised at the insensitivity of that comment."

I lifted these comments from: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434373566&rss=newswire

Thank you Judge Scalia!

Attitudes ?

The older I get,

the more I learn to tolerate

human shortcomings--

and the less

I tolerate bad attitudes.

The words of Thomas Stowell.

"Freedom"

The following was copied from the following site:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html


· Freedom is a basic human right recognized by the United Nations and international treaties, and is the heart of social justice.
· Freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement.
· Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty.
· Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines, and by theory, should not. Freedom is therefore a solution to hunger and famine.
· Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.
· Free people have virtually no government genocide and mass murder, and for good theoretical reasons. Freedom is therefore a solution to genocide and mass murder; the only practical means of making sure that "Never again"
· Free people do not make war on each other, and the greater the freedom within two nations, the less violence between them.
· Freedom is a method of nonviolence--the most peaceful nations are those whose people are free.

Just a random thought as I pass this way today;

Mervi

What is really important today?

A short story from the tragic sinking of that great ocean liner the Titanic, a lady had a seat in one of the life boats. She begged to be allowed to return to her stateroom, she was given three minutes. As she entered her stateroom, she walked right passed the jewels laying on her nightstand and reached into a box to acquire three oranges and returned to her place in the life boat.

How many times, in my short life, when there has been an alteration of a situation or its surroundings has had such a dynamic effect on my outlook as to what is important?

Here is a thought for the weekend.

How old would you be if

you didn’t know how old you are?

Leroy Satchell Page

Seek Knock Ask

We were privileged to have Bro. Doug Wright preach for our congregation last night. His text was, knock and it shall be opened, seek and you will find, ask and it shall be given. As Bro Wright was preaching, I could not help me think if this old man almost fifty, yes I said 50, years ago. How that desire / drive to knock, seek and ask was so strong in me to receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. The great desire that I had to find a better style of live than the one I was living.

Thank you JESUS for the drive that was placed in me to seek, knock and ask for the blessing of You in my live.

It is still about first things first

A short story from the tragic sinking of that great ocean liner the Titanic, a lady had a seat in one of the life boats. She begged to be allowed to return to her stateroom, she was given three minutes. As she entered her stateroom, she walked right passed the jewels laying on her nightstand and reached into a box to acquire three oranges and returned to her place in the life boat.

How many times, in my short life, when there has been an alteration of a situation or its surroundings has had such a dynamic effect on my outlook as to what is important?