[Looking for Diogenes]

Justinian would have sided with Judge Moore, not you. Sorry, but that's the way it is.

George III might have sided with Moore as well.

While our legal systems are based upon Roman Law and English Common Law, we now have our own, fully developed legal code. A legal code which forbids placing explicitly religous monuments in government buildings.

[jwalsh07]

George III might have sided with Moore as well.

Perhaps but you didn't quote George III as evidence that the posting of the Ten Commandments in a courtroom in Alabam was unconstitutional. You brought up Justinian who constructed many churches with state money and endorse one religion as the true religion.

Perhaps, in the future, you should leave Justinian out of the debate?

While our legal systems are based upon Roman Law and English Common Law, we now have our own, fully developed legal code. A legal code which forbids placing explicitly religous monuments in government buildings

LOL, just a few posts ago they were based on the Justinian Code which incorporated Roman Law.

Of course what you left out was that the Justinian Code was not based only on Roman Law but was very heavily influenced by Christianity.

And we don't have a Constitution that bans "explicitly religious monuments in government buildings". We have unelected judical tyrannists who do that. The Decalogue is by all accounts "explicitly religious" and appears in the SCOTUS. So much for that argument.

We do have a Constitution that proscribes the COngress from establishing a state religion. Likewise, we have 50 states whose Constitutions do the same thing. The problem is that the decalogue does not establish any particular religion unless one is of the mind that all of the sects of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are one religion. I would have to say that one would have to be loco to make such a claim. What do you think?

[usadave]

A legal code which forbids placing explicitly religous monuments in government buildings.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution could have made it easier for all of us if they had just included this line in the First Amendment so as to read:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; it is forbidden to place explicitly religous monuments in government buildings.