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To: Dilbert San Diego

The 10 Commandments are prominantly displayed in the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC. In full view of the Justices as they sit on the bench hearin orals.

Iirc the crux of the SCOTUS rulings have been that it’s ok to display the Commandments in a secular/historical context, as a representation of historical cultural law. It’s when they’re put up and endorsed from a religious perspective that it’s a problem.

It ticks me off to no end that we have to be so careful and lawerly over things like this. Madison’s great line (”de minimus non cureat lex” I think it was) very much applies, IMHO.


9 posted on 08/08/2014 8:21:30 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

When you get right down to it, we would not have to be so lawerly and careful, if liberals weren’t filing lawsuits over these issues time and time again.

If liberals would just let it be, we wouldn’t have these discussions. Liberals should learn that there is no constitutional right NOT to be offended by something.

Liberals can hardly claim that we are some sort of theocracy, based on the display of a 10 Commandments monument. It all comes down to them being offended on some level by that display. Not due to the laws or legal actions of our government somehow acting based on religious faith.


13 posted on 08/08/2014 8:32:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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