Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: religion and public life: texas Message-ID: <662@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 21:25:19 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.662 Posted: Wed Aug 1 21:25:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:10:23 EDT References: <927@ulysses.UUCP> <367@oliven.UUCP> <2927@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 18 >The Bill of Rights stipulates that no one's rights shall be >abridged on account of uncontrollable characteristics or for >choosing to accept or to reject the tenets of some religion. >But nowhere is the privilege of holding public office >identified as a ``right''. Nor are the following identified, per se, as "rights" in the Bill of Rights: being allowed to have a job owning/operating a car being allowed to buy food ... I think I get the point of the parent article, and I don't think I like it very much. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Keep your day job 'til your night job pays.