On 1/14/2011 10:27 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:37:52 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> Its this thinking, and the inadvertent support for it, which makes the
>> national day of prayer a problem. For them, it *does* endorse it, and
>> they quite clearly do not think that "endorsing" religion, even their
>> own, is a problem, only denying others their own (save, again, for any
>> conflicts in expression, in which case their own overrides the "wrong"
>> one).
>
> So if even one nutjob thinks that something the government does is an
> endorsement of religion, then it is?
>
Not just the nut jobs. The problem is, the Overton Window has shifted so 
badly, in some cases, to one side, than even the people that might 
otherwise *not* be classified as nuts accept that it *is* a sort of 
indirect endorsement, and that there isn't any real problem doing so. 
That the real nut jobs would turn around and declare 90% of Christians 
in the country as "false believers", and have stated as much in public 
forums, is either ignored as unlikely, waved off as not a real threat, 
or completely missed, by people who, never the less, if polled, would 
insist that the NDoP is OK, and so is posting the Ten Commandments on 
every building in the city.

When things get that far out of sync, "framing" things, so they are 
supposed to be universally good for everyone, only benefits the people 
that want to use that framing to shove the window even farther over.

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