@KNOWITALL For sure the consitution and the law are broken all over the US. States vote in laws and eventually it sometimes gets to the point of the US Supreme Court and we as a country decide that law is not permissable. In my experience the south when it comes to topics of religion and things associated with religion like abortion and gay marriage will do everything they can to do what they want in their own state even if it seems pretty obvious it impedes on federal law that already exists, or conflicts with our constitution. It happens in other places too, and of course there are many people in the bible belt and many Christians who have a problem with it like I do.
It’s from fear I think. They are afraid the US will become not the country they believe is their America, and not God’s America.
Boston Tea party was a long time ago. If we stick to the last 30 years the bible belt and the right wing are the most vocal, and the most under fire in my opinion, so I understand why they are having big reactions.
I personally am ok with religious symbols that have been there for over 50 years staying put. But, it can be tricky, because then you have to worry about whether to include other religious symbols or exclude everything. If we include everything do we do it at a local level? If the population in a city has a minimum of 10% of it’s population one religion do we add their symbol? Dearbon, MI will then have Muslim symbols up probably. In NYC Jewish symbols, etc. I’m not talking about holiday stuff, I mean permament fixtures. I lean towards having none of that in our government places.
A lot of southerners don’t feel that can ever happen where they live, so their mind never goes there. They don’t entertain the idea at all that one day they might be the religious minority, and maybe they should think about what laws they want in place if that happens. They have enough majority that they can stick with that idea, they don’t have to think about putting themselves in someone else’s shoes.