Bloomington Bans Bible, but Welcomes Buddha

Posted on October 21, 2007

We read:

“Buddha is welcome but the Bible is banned at the Bloomington, Ind., city hall after officials booted a display of the Ten Commandments erected by Christians wanting equal treatment with the Far East religion promoted by the Dalai Lama.

The dispute arose over a display of religious statues of Buddha and other items, including religious cloth paintings, erected in the Bloomington City Hall to coincide with a coming visit of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s leader of Buddhism.

Amy Bernitt, one of the Christians who made arrangements for the Ten Commandments to be made available for a similar display about Christianity, told WND a few hours after the stone tablets were delivered for display in City Hall, “I got a very rude call from public works, telling us the Ten Commandments had been taken down and we need to come get them.”

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The Dalai Lama is undoubtedly a religious leader who preaches his religion in what he says so favouring his presentations would seem to be in breach of the establishment clause of the constitution. Where is the ACLU on this one?

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One Response to “Bloomington Bans Bible, but Welcomes Buddha”

Increase Mather on October 21st, 2007 10:07 am

See, it doesn’t work that way. I have a liberal friend I work with who is a member of the ACLU. Her argument is that for a religion to be banned from public entanglement with the government it has to be a religion that has lots of local adherents.

Same with Mulim Prayer Footbaths she says. That’s OK. See, because the Muslims at the University of Michigan aren’t attempting to get entangled with government, the govenment can choose to become entangled with them.

See, it’s like abortion, excuse me, I mean “choice”. In this case the government gets to choose a religion to support in some way because it’s for the good of all. It’s only “choice” and “choice” is a good thing. Unless you want to take your kid out of public school. Then “choice” is bad.

I love talking to this ACLU members, I learn so much. Hope you did too.