re: Sheriff praised Jesus on department Facebook page, county settles suit

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I give a shite because maybe I don't want my tax dollars being spent on people making Jesus posts?

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I think the thing that pisses me off the most about his position is the claim that he wouldn't care if it were reversed. I'm good with discussing or even arguing with a person of goodwill who's an honest player, but that level of horseshite is hard to overcome.

The ONLY reason this is seen as no big deal is because generationally this has gone one way, and that's in the direction of what he agrees with. It's not that he doesn't understand this...it's that he's now MAD that his side is no longer getting away with this bullshite.

I mean...I get it. I guess I'd be angry about no longer getting special treatment, but I'd like to think I'd be honest enough to acknowledge the special treatment I once got and move on with my life. Not pretend it was always fine and now I"M being repressed! Holy shite...

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The war on Christianity is strong in this country

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AND NOW the self-persecution pity party begins.

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oh shut the frick up.

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So disliking gov't waste is hilarious now?

I'd say you were a liberal but liberals love gov't waste as long as it isn't spent on religion, so...

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You don't know me, so wtf does this even mean?

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It means I think you're a liar, and I don't think lying for Jesus gives you a pass.

I feel like Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men...you want to say it, but you know better than to actually take the position that would make you look dumb and that you clearly have a double standard here...so you pretend that you'd be perfectly fine with some Muslim Sheriff posting crap about Islam, or some Hindu using his office to preach about their gods.

Just own it, man...you'll feel better! And, you'll be honest...which is it's own reward!

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I'll pray your local constable doesn't say God bless you when you sneeze

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Too bad...because otherwise the Devil will jump into my body when it sees the opening after the sneeze!!!

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Pro tip, the Establishment and Prohibition Clause has nothing to do with this.

It's a Freedom of Speech issue. So pack up the religious bit here.

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Right on. More to the story.

LINK

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Atheists can't stop Tennessee sheriff Eric Watson from posting Christian messages on Facebook, Judge rules......

Almost immediately, the backlash began on the sheriff’s post. Several commenters began taking the sheriff to task for posting such an overtly religious message on the Facebook page. However, instead of deleting the post, Watson doubled down: he and other staffers deleted critical comments about the post, as well as any other critical comments elsewhere on the department’s Facebook page, and banned those users who had posted critical comments.

An anonymous Bradley County resident contacted atheists’ rights group American Atheists, and they filed a lawsuit. The suit alleged that Watson and the County violated the anonymous resident’s First Amendment rights by posting the religious message, as well as engaged in a pattern of censorship by deleting critical posts, according to a May 9 WTVC report.

At the time, American Atheists said the lawsuit was less about the “He Is Risen” message and more about the later censorship.

“This lawsuit is about protecting the community’s First Amendment right to speak out about its elected officials. The BCSO had no problem with public comments until they were critical of the sheriff or of his proselytizing at work. But the government doesn’t get to silence speech it doesn’t like, even if that speech is negative, unflattering and disrespectful of the sheriff’s religion.”

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That sheriff tried to go Gary Chambers on the county facebook page.

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The deal calls for $15,000 in damages to be paid to the American Atheists organization and other plaintiffs in addition to $26,000 in legal fees.

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Intersting. The Lawyers for the plaintiff make out like bandits getting away with 26k. That is more than the damages were.

So the lawyers get rich, every else gets screwed.

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So the lawyers get rich, every else gets screwed.

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Once we take away "In God We Trust" this will be the new US motto

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Hope those plaintiffs get bullets to the head

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You are a thousand times worse threat to our constitutional rights than any liberal.

Dumbass.

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Christian love, y'all!

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Common sense