Reply #50: But Masturbation Sure is a Part of our Heritage!!!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

OK, point taken, the founders/framers weren't Buddhists.

But I'll bet good money that ALL of the Founding Fathers masturbated now and again. Don't you think that, for the sake of our heritage, we should put a big dick-and-hand statue in courthouses all across the country?

It's not an endorsement of masturbation, you understand. It's just an acknowledgement of our dolphin-flogging heritage.

Absurd? Of course. And it's also completely in line and parallel with your ridiculous assertions. Keep your hateful God out of the courthouses in my country. I like my God much better, and my God has no desire to be commemorated in a courthouse. My God understands what subjectivity and poetic language are about. My God isn't literalist or legalistic. My God is confident enough not to have his/her acolytes try to shove their beliefs into everyone else's face because of their own insecurities.

You don't have to like my God or even believe in my God. By the same token, I can sneer at your limited view of God. But I sure as hell don't want that limited and immature concept of God codified in our laws or otherwise put on display in my public buildings.

Do you not understand that the issue is just too subjective? You're not on the same page I'm on, with your Waffle House God, and I want no part.

Capisce?