Louisville, KY - Legislature Too Wrapped Up In Religion, Jewish Leaders Say
Louisville, KY - The leaders of Louisville's Jewish community have taken Kentucky legislators to task for what they see as an excessive amount of religious overtones to the legislative session and related events.
A letter cited as examples bills authorizing the posting of the Ten Commandments and the motto "In God We Trust" at the Capitol; a governor's prayer breakfast at which only Christians spoke.
"We believe that our elected officials should focus less energy on legislating religion itself, and should spend more effort on legislating good policies based on the fundamental moral values shared by all our citizens," the letter said in part.
A lead signee of the letter, said various events created "a whole feeling of perhaps marginalizing not just the Jewish community, but a lot of other communities."
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 3/29/2006 07:57:00 AM
1 Comments:
At 5:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
This is the biggest Chillul Hashem that frey Jewish people have been making in America for years. We are supposed to be teaching the world that there is a G-d, and instead freyer yidden are trying to erase Hashem's Name from America. We heimishe Yidden should get together to oppose the freyer Yidden's attack on religion. We have to fulfill our roles as "or la'amim" and "mamleiches koyhanim vgoy kudoish"! We should go out of our way to show the world that Jews do believe in G-d and that we are the ones who taught the world there is a G-d in the first place! We should protest these freyer yidden's plans to remove religion from America!
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