On 12 Jul 2001, at 19:55, A. Melon wrote:
Those 3 things you mentioned violate the First on at least two counts, free speech and press, and also the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" part --- the obscenity and kid porn stuff is pure Judeo-Christian bigotry.
Whose to say other religions wouldn't teach the opposite? Like
I don't think so. AFAIK the bible doesn't condemn pedophilia anywhere, and in any case basing laws on moral values that come from your religion is not at all the same as repecting the esatblishment of a religeon. the
worship of Ishtar (Easter) for instance, whose scriptures have Her saying "My father taught me the kissing of the phallus". Or read "Coming of Age in Somoa" by Margret Mead.
I don't know much about Ashtaroth, but but I do no that COAIS has been refuted as a total hoax. George