ACLU Claims Opposition to Ten Commandments Display over Concern for Catholics

Lifesite.org ^ | January 9, 2004

[NeoCaveman]

I don't need the government telling me about my religious heritage. I'm just fine without the state-sponsored religion prying into my life.

How is this a state sponsored religion? I think you don't understand the establishment clause.

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[highlander_UW]

I'm just fine without the state-sponsored religion prying into my life.

You're right! They really do push that secular humanism way too much.

[highlander_UW]

I'm fine with people displaying their own religious symbols any time, any place. I just don't want to pay for it through my tax dollars.

Just curious, how are you tax dollars being used? The article said the documents were provided by private donors. The only use of your tax money is going to come from the efforts of the ACLU involving a court.

[highlander_UW]

What the article actually said: "are being displayed to commemorate the moral and legal underpinnings of the United States."

I suppose the word "moral" just blew right past you. That's just code for "religious."

So then you're only in favor of amoral laws?!

One more thing that liberals such as yourself fail to grasp...the mere mention of the word God either verbally or in print is NOT evangelism. According to Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, evangelism = the winning or revival of personal commitments to Christ. Are you suggesting simply hearing the word God uttered or see it written is winning commitments to Christ?

[StonyBurk]

The ACLU is offended by the language of the written Constitution of th eUnited States of America--and anything not related to atheistic Soviet Communism

[StonyBurk]

True there are lots of religious symbols displayed in many
Courthouses The one where Roy Moores' appeal was turned
down displayed ancient Greek religious symbolism. The
US supreme court displays images of the Ten Commandments
in no less than four different displays-- Moses and the
Ten Commandments are displayed twice as much as that cultic
false prophet Muhammed and his false religious document the Koran.But the cult of Law in America wants to restrict
similar displays in places far removed from D.C.

[StonyBurk]

Welcome home-- The place shure do look different than
when we went in doesn't it?Honor the Code of Conduct--
Never surrender of your own free will.

[Dante3]

ACLU just plain hates religion and our values. As O'Reilly has pointed out ACLU is pro-pedophiles.

[StonyBurk]

Gee you and Pfred Phelps-- and the Ku Klux Klansman Hugo
Black-- and the ACLU founding commie Frankfurter all sound
alike.

[peter the great]

With this anything is possible. I heard the ACLU say this once before as reported to me by Michael Savage. You may very well be right. However, I tend to believe that these decisions are hated by the majority of the people, including some of their own members. Not only that, they see the religious right organizing. One other thing there are people I know who are members of the ACLU. I have a feeling that there are businesses that offer discounts to ACLU members we need to organize a boycott of these people if this is true.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Seems like the ACLU was hoping that Catholics are not Christians. STEEERIKE!

[FormerLib]

Funny how he has no complaints about the ACLU trying to force atheism on all of us, eh?

And how is a monument that includes this nation's cultural/religious heritage forcing anything on anyone? Oh, it presents the truth and some don't like it? Too bad.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"The Ten Commandments" is not just a "religious symbol", it is a component of this country's establishment.

Thank you, please try again.

[FormerLib]

I really hate trying to inform room temp I.Q. libs.

Unless you can show that there's any other kind, I think this is a little redundant...but illustrative nonetheless.

[Miggsathon]

"You are a very funny kind of libertarian. The kind that is angered by liberty."

There's a difference between liberty of individuals and liberty of the collective. If you believe that the collective should do as little as possible -- as conservatives are supposed to -- then you may want to consider the idea that the collective should not take a religious stand. That's up to the individual and to the family.

[Salvation]

ACLU for Catholics????

I think not........

[Salvation]

**Seems like the ACLU was hoping that Catholics are not Christians. STEEERIKE!**

Wish they would strike out for good! (And disappear!)

[Miggsathon]

I would be fine with the 10 Commandments being posted in a publicly funded museum (whether those should exist is another story) or another government-sponsored place where it's clear that the intention is history. Any attempts by the ACLU or anyone else to pretend religion is not a part of American history is preposterous and deserves to be rejected. However, I would NOT favor posting the 10 Commandments anywhere in a place suggesting it's the sponsored religion of the collective.

[Miggsathon]

"it is a component of this country's establishment. "

Could you be any more vague?