People forget this having happened. In 2010, City Council shutdown a proposal to put the Ten Commandments at City Hall. The Commandments are a Jewish worldview on morality, which many state have an underlying effect on modern morals today. The idea was eventually approved by Mayor John Sullivan, R-Cape Coral, who seemed to spearhead the efforts on the dais. I had asked the Mayor about it in my first actual interview with a public official during a Christmas Event in 2010. The footage is lost as the camera was a 90s camcorder and had no computer proficiency. However, the Mayor noted he was being praised by many people including the Queen of England. I find that both hard to believe and a matter of pure hubris on the Mayors part. Certainly some religious zealots would support the Mayors proposal. But the Queen of the United Kingdom? I highly doubt she would even pay attention to a small city as ours. Id doubt anyone from her Office would. I doubt any official of British Government would. Heck, Id doubt any foreign power would give a rat tooth on a city of 150,000 or so people having the Ten Commandments in a public space. But I would, and others. And I follow the Commandments, as a Jew. They are the Laws that define my People. But my People are not the People of every Cape Coral resident. We have Cape Coralians who are atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, or of Taoic Faiths. We may even have some Wiccans or Neo-Pagans. These people do not hold the Ten Commandments in their Faiths worldview. The whole point of the First Amendment of the US Constitution is that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Fourteenth Amendment ensured that this right and others were required among States and Municipalities. The City Government cannot, with City Revenues, with OUR revenues, build a monument to the Ten Commandments. Put it this way, how would you feel if the City of Cape Coral used taxpayer funds to put up a monument of the Four Pillars of Islam? I know many of my conservative friends would oppose this, as some of them are Islamophobic in nature. Put it another way, entering into a Judeo-Christian based Government...that sounds sort of like what they do in those horrible Muslim countries. They have a State Faith that they sponsor and promote. Do you want Cape Coral to be like Saudi Arabia, or Iran? Now dont get me wrong, you can exercise freely. Thats why I oppose anyone who tries to take away voluntary school prayer or invocations in public forums. I will not stand during those invocations, or pray during those prayers, as per my preference, but I will respect those who do, and I ask they respect me (though there are some who dont). I have a huge problem with anti-church/staters. The two are separate for a reason. I dont want a Christian Nation. Hell, I dont want a Jewish Nation either. Religion and Government do not mix, because there are many people who disagree with a Religion, and we are a people who protect our minorities. THAT is a Republic. Mayor Sullivan tried to bring us one step closer to being the City equivalent to Iran. There, I said it! youtube/watch?v=aF8bdUsHIOY
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:36:37 +0000
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