it isn’t easy being red,
white, and blue
sometimes we’re a target
other times we’re ridiculed
and now that we are growing
outside of old constraints
many of our own folks are
lodging new complaints.
they say we’ve wandered,
become too secular
but our founding fathers
were quite particular
refusing even then to
name a national faith
knowing well the tyranny
that lay along that path.
for if we honor only
Christian ideals
on government buildings
and official seals
then how can we expect
those of other creeds
to be willing taxpayers
when we ignore their needs?
Peace, people!
Praying for Eyebrowz 
You’ve hit that nail as squarely on the head as can ever be accomplished! From to worship, freedom FROM worship while preventing a repeat of the religious oppression so many early settlers had escaped. KUDOS!!!!
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Thank you! Coming from you that’s a real compliment!!!
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I agree with the message, but it’s your poem that’s cool!
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Thank you. I was kind of thinking out loud that day. It almost felt like this old lady had a rap going.
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