Blog Posts in October, 2012
Posted on Oct 25, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Recently, I downloaded a film called "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," hoping to relax over a story of British elderly visiting India. What I got instead was a lecture on tolerance for ...
Continue reading "The Movie Industry's Sexual Obsession" »
Posted on Oct 24, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
At least one LA Times reader gets it: A federal judge ruled that a cross' presence on federal land conveyed an endorsement of religion. Left unsaid is just how such a feeling by some is equivalent ...
Continue reading "Is The Mojave Desert Cross Forcing You To Go To Church?" »
Posted on Oct 23, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
This from the Los Angeles Times Op-Ed pages 10-23-2012: Liberals should accept the display of biblical banners at a Texas high school; it jibes with their love of free speech. But conservatives need ...
Continue reading "Cheering for Jesus" »
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
In a feature article on the front page left column of today's Los Angeles Times (10-22-2012), writer Thomas Curwen documents the history of a federal lawsuit that led to the removal of a veterans ...
Continue reading "The Desert Cross Case's Hidden Meaning" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
While writing my last commentary touching on the atheist's absolutist interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's metaphor explaining the legislative intent behind the meaning of the First ...
Continue reading "The Jefferson (& Barton) Lies" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall." – Pink Floyd * * * The topic refers, of course, to the "wall of separation between church and state" – not to the ...
Continue reading "The Wall (and the Atheists of Palisades Park)" »
Posted on Oct 15, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A hearing on the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Prelimiinary Injunction has been scheduled for November 19, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in U.S. District Court in downtown Los ...
Continue reading "Will Christmas Come To Santa Monica This December?" »
Posted on Oct 10, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The Becker Law Firm filed a federal action against the City of Santa Monica to restore the 60-year-old Nativity scene Christmas tradition to Palisades Park. You can read the news reports here in the ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
THE BECKER LAW FIRM FILES FREE SPEECH LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF SANTA MONICA TO RESTORE 60-YEAR-OLD CHRISTMAS NATIVITY SCENE TRADITION On Tuesday, October, 9, 2012, The Becker Law Firm filed a lawsuit ...
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