Reply #26: Everytime I have this discussion

[bryant69]

I get called a right wing fundementalist. I'll take that as a sign that your argument is weak and you are trying to avoid actually having to make it.

Putting up the ten commandments in the courthouse is different than putting a christmas tree in a window box for a couple of reasons. There's an implied endorsement in putting up the ten commandments, and there is no provision for any other religion or point of view getting their day in the sun. The implied endorsement in the window box is considerably weaker if it exists at all, and as others have pointed out, they could allow for other religions and points of view. If Atheists wanted a week to celebrate reason, or Mulims a week to commemorate Ramadan (i know it's a month, but going on the assumption that they change it out weekly) or Jews to celebrate Yom Kippur, they should be allowed to as well. You either let everybody or you let nobody, as someone else put it.

Bryant