Raise Your Hand if...

Raise your hand if you would take offense to a federal Judge in your community placing a large monument of the EightFold Path in the rotunda of your city's Federal Courthouse. *This has been a question going through my mind ever since Alabama Federal Judge Moore took upon himself the authority to place a large monument of the 10 Commandments in the main rotunda of his courthouse and refused to have it removed when it was rightfully found to be unconstitutional. As it was forcibly removed by the order of other federal judges there were large protest groups demanding that it remain in place. I have always wondered how those protesters would have reacted if that judge had been Buddhist rather than Christian. Would they be as adimant about his right to express his religious beliefs in a public courthouse if his hadn't coincided with their own beliefs? Or are they only concerned about his right to free expression when it is the same as the beliefs they themselves want to express? p.s. please click the eightfold path link and read its brief description. keep in mind that it as well as Buddhism overall does not deal in any way with God or a higher power. it is a mere guideline to living a congruent and harmonious life and is not theist or speculative in nature at all. much in the same way that 'the golden rule' is neither religious nor reasonably debatable.