Ted Rall for June 30, 2005

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The supreme court has ruled that the avestas, including the original words of Zarathustra in the form of the gathas, cannot be displayed in courthouses. (Man 1: #$%^ secular humanists! America has always been a Zoroastrian nation. It's our culture!) However, they can be displayed on government property under certain conditions. (Man 2: Simply include icons of puny minority "religions" like Christianity and libertarianism alongside traditional Zoroastrian texts!) Zoroastrian conservatives say that's not enough. (Woman: Health department. We're gonna have to stop your practice of laying out corpses to be eaten by carrion birds on the roof of a building.) (Man 3: The towers of silence aren't a religion- they're America!!) Why they ask, should the non-Zoroastrian minority force religion out of public life? (Man 5: Deny it all you want, but mirtha, srosha and rashnu will damn your urvan!) (Man 6: What if he's right?)