http://www.eriegaynews.com/mahlerblog/2009/04/email-about-in-god-we-trust-on-stamps.php Ramblings of a Gay Pagan in Erie PA Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.eriegaynews.com/mahlerblog/2009/04/email-about-in-god-we-trust-on-stamps.php#comment-699 Michael Mahler Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:02:34 +0000 http://www.eriegaynews.com/wordpress/?p=1732#comment-699 I believe that many people did not comprehend the original story. The issue was NOT was printed on stamps. The issue was that someone in Texas had paid for signs to be posted in a US Post Office. NO signs from private sources can be posted at US Post Offices. It has absolutely nothing to do with the content. If the signs had read "Praise Allah!" "Eat at Joes" "Kittens - free to a good home", it still would not be allowed. Walk into a post office. Look at the materials posted there. Notice that everything is official US Postal Service or government based stuff. Literacy. It's a good thing. I believe that many people did not comprehend the original story. The issue was NOT was printed on stamps. The issue was that someone in Texas had paid for signs to be posted in a US Post Office. NO signs from private sources can be posted at US Post Offices. It has absolutely nothing to do with the content. If the signs had read “Praise Allah!” “Eat at Joes” “Kittens – free to a good home”, it still would not be allowed. Walk into a post office. Look at the materials posted there. Notice that everything is official US Postal Service or government based stuff.
Literacy. It’s a good thing.

]]> http://www.eriegaynews.com/mahlerblog/2009/04/email-about-in-god-we-trust-on-stamps.php#comment-698 Butch Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:52:29 +0000 http://www.eriegaynews.com/wordpress/?p=1732#comment-698 You are telling us to be tolerant of agnostics and atheists, and I am as long as they're not trying to force there agenda on me. 80% of American people believe in God. It has nothing to do with the post office or any government agency. It has to do with a very small minority telling the rest of us what should be allowed. They claim to be offended. Oh!!! You poor things. What's really sad is how a few people let four words ruin their day when they read them. How pathetic is that? If you don't like them DON"T READ THEM!!! And to make matters worse these few people spend millions of dollars, time, and energy to try and rob the rest of us of the joy or reading those all important four words whether they believe in them or not. Our country was founded on Godly principals. It's what made this country the most free and powerful country on the planet. And if you'll notice the more the few suck God out of our country the weaker we become. So you go ahead and keep defending people that have no lagitament gripe, because those words do absolutely nothing to hurt one single person on the planet, including them. You are telling us to be tolerant of agnostics and atheists, and I am as long as they’re not trying to force there agenda on me. 80% of American people believe in God. It has nothing to do with the post office or any government agency. It has to do with a very small minority telling the rest of us what should be allowed. They claim to be offended. Oh!!! You poor things. What’s really sad is how a few people let four words ruin their day when they read them. How pathetic is that? If you don’t like them DON”T READ THEM!!! And to make matters worse these few people spend millions of dollars, time, and energy to try and rob the rest of us of the joy or reading those all important four words whether they believe in them or not. Our country was founded on Godly principals. It’s what made this country the most free and powerful country on the planet. And if you’ll notice the more the few suck God out of our country the weaker we become. So you go ahead and keep defending people that have no lagitament gripe, because those words do absolutely nothing to hurt one single person on the planet, including them.

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