Ten Commandments Must Go...............Says the Courts

[weatherwunder]

This same thing happened in Plattsmouth, Nebraska last winter. The monument was in the city park.


ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Ten Commandments monument the size of a washing machine must be removed from the Alabama Supreme Court building.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a ruling by a federal judge who said that the 2 1/2-ton granite monument, placed there by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

"If we adopted his position, the chief justice would be free to adorn the walls of the Alabama Supreme Court's courtroom with sectarian religious murals and have decidedly religious quotations painted above the bench," the three-judge panel said.

"Every government building could be topped with a cross, or a menorah, or a statue of Buddha, depending upon the views of the officials with authority over the premises."

Moore put the monument in the rotunda of the courthouse in the middle of the night two summers ago. The monument features tablets bearing the Ten Commandments and historical quotations about the place of God in law.

He was sued by several attorneys who said the monument infringed on their religious freedom. In November, a federal judge ordered the monument removed but then decided it could stay pending appeal.

[streetsoldier]

Oh, how the courts have learned to twist the laws!

They are pandering to a "no one offended, no one 'challenged'" type of...dare I say it? ...BULLSHIT which ignores the majority in favor of an infinitessimally tiny, but vocal minority.

And, what happens if some citizen finds the color of the paint inside a school or court "offensive", or the pattern on the floors "visually impairing"? Or, the sidewalks are contrary to the needs of the "horizontally challenged" (that rare person who can't walk on a crack)???

Enough is enough!

[azsnowman]

Ya know.......God, someday is gonna say, "You denied me before others, now I am gonna deny you!"

This, like Bill said, is B.S.! Our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves at this moment, shaking their heads, wonder why they ever gave their lives for this country!

Dennis

[Colin]

Amen... this is just ridiculous. How the heck can they do such a thing... and it IS B.S! I think the COURTS must go before the Commandments go!

[southerngale]

Dennis, you're right. That's exactly what God will say.

We the sensible, righteous and God fearing citizens of the United States, in order to perform our divinely established responsibilities of honoring the one and only true GOD and make righteous and just laws that work for the good of our fellow man, insure the proper punishment for all criminal heathens who deny God, insure the reward for the righteous who honor God, and secure the blessings of righteous liberty unto ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the TEN COMMANDMENTS as the supreme law of the land
- and the constitution of the United States of America.