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Crucifixes in government buildings

Pope Benedict XVI has backed the display of crucifixes in public buildings, saying that God should be present in public life.
"It is important that God is present in public life, with the sign of the cross, in homes and public buildings," the Italian news agency ANSA quoted the pontiff as saying during his homily in a parish church in Castel Gandolfo, the hill town outside Rome where the Vatican has its vacation retreat.
He made no reference to specific disputes, but the issue of whether religious symbols have a place in government buildings has been a divisive one in Italy and elsewhere.

A Muslim activist in Italy in past years had turned to the courts to seek the removal of crucifixes from public schools in Italy, which is officially secular.

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 15 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin' Pope, always trying to push his religion on people.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 15 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Only if I can display my religious totems too. And my religious totems are required by the holy writings of my faith to be 17 feet tall and made entirely of rotting melons.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 15 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

What the's joke from The Crow, delivered as the guy is repeatedly shot?

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE, MOTHERFUCKER!"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

So, is the Pope enacting this in The Vatican City? I can imagine the humongous non-Christian population that lives in The Vatican City that will protest this.

― donut ferry (donut), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

http://fusionanomaly.net/sineadsnl.jpg

― The Real Enemy, Monday, 15 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

It is important that God is present in public life

Fallacy: presence of crucifixes == God's presence.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

aimless otm. ("aimless otm"... hehe.)
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh noes, the Pope is religious and wants more crucifixes, whoda thunk.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

"In government buildings" is a not-irrelevant qualifier, no?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

still can't stop thinking off eggs whenever i see the new guys name

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

It says in PUBLIC buildings. Which doesnt nesc mean GOVT buildings... also what country is he even referring to? Not everywhere has a separation of church and state. Some countries arent even christian.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Italy and, more generally, the "Christian" West. This man is pretty open in his enthusiasm for state religion and ecclesiastical governance. Also, he looks like a James Bond villain. But I kid the Pope.

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

VATICAN CITY -- Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.

The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston.

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

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