Reply #12: I don't think that works with something I saw here on DU.

[Festivito]

Don't remember who. Sorry. But, here's the ending:

Freedom comes from having power,
Power comes from having knowledge,
Knowledge comes from having love.

If freedom does come from a position of power, then
having a rule that limits power, should limit freedom.

That if people had the power to maintain displays of religious nature, they would have that freedom of which you speak -- freedom to maintain it, and freedom to not erect it at all.

So, equating freedom with a limitation of freedom is at best lackluster, but more likely just completely wrong.