STATUE: Since when is city Christian?

Citizens of Coeur d'Alene, pray as hard as you might that it may become true, but the fact that the religious majority of this town is Christian does not make the city of Coeur d'Alene by any means a "Christian city" any more than the United States may be called a "white nation" with Caucasian being the racial majority. Simply no one holds the right to label Coeur d'Alene as a town of any religious affiliation.

It is amusing to me that those who believe so staunchly in the Constitution and the words of the Founding Fathers only seem to understand what "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" means when it is convenient to their personal beliefs and convictions. I understand that someone may not want Coeur d'Alene to become a Hindu city because he finds it threatening to his own beliefs (regardless of the fact that millions of Hindus freely practice their own religion without disturbing the religion of anyone else on a daily basis), but at the same time, I find that my personal rights are infringed upon when a group of citizens finds it necessary to ban and censor cultural and artistic expression because it goes against THEIR beliefs - and not mine. The Constitution Party does not speak for me, and they do not speak for many citizens of Coeur d'Alene who respect the diversity of humanity and how culture brings people of all races and religions closer together.

Why do individuals speak out against the "conversion" of our town to any religion we may find foreign, but then in the blink of an eye turn and label Coeur d'Alene as a "Christian" town that should follow a Christian ethic? It's the same thing, folks.

KAYLA BAKER

Post Falls