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Posted on 07/07/2004 8:35:09 PM PDT by esryle
Atlanta-AP) -- A year after a granite Ten Commandments marker was hauled out of Alabama's high court, fights over the religious document in courthouses are still going strong in Georgia.
Two Georgia counties have installed Ten Commandments displays in their courthouses in the past week, ignoring lawsuits in other counties.
Says Henry County commissioner Gerry Adams, "I don't see anything wrong with saying you ought not be killin' or stealin'."
On Tuesday, Henry County commissioners voted 5-to-0 to put a framed Ten Commandments poster in the entrance of a new courthouse. A similar display was installed in a courthouse last week in Cherokee County, in Atlanta's northern suburbs.
That brings to at least five the number of Georgia counties that have placed Ten Commandments markers in their courthouses in recent years. One of those counties, Habersham, obeyed a federal judge's order and took down its two displays last November. The rest are still up, although some currently face legal challenges.
The state chairman for the League of the South, a heritage group that paid for Henry County's poster, Ray McBerry, said dozens more county governments in Georgia are considering Ten Commandments displays.
McBerry called the Ten Commandment trend a direct reaction to last summer's battle by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to show the holy rules in courthouses. The marker was removed last August, and Moore was removed from the court for refusing to obey a federal ruling calling for its removal.
I like it....bleed the ACLU dry....
RD
Hey, hey cowboy! Let's not be so judgemental!
Prohibitions against stealing and killing have religious origin. As such they violate the separation of state andchurch.
It may seem a small matter to those Freepers who are not religious, but the battle over the ten commandments is a key one. Any reasonable person can read the US Constitution and see it only prevents the federal government from establishing a government-sanctioned church, like the Church of England.
This is clearly a case where a small group of elites (judges) have reinterpreted the US Constitution to the point where it completely turns the original intent on its head. It really has nothing to do with religion. Either you agree the government can reinterpret the US Constitution to mean whatever they want (with the corresponding risk to our individual freedoms) or you believe in the rule of law.
Liberals love judicial activism, but they simply don't understand where they are taking the country. If liberal judges can completely pervert the law to mean whatever they want today, the same powers could be used against liberals in the future. It would simply come down to whoever could stack the deck during a given period of time--get enough of your folks in power and you could use the law to squash your opposition! Frankly, it really wouldn't matter who the judges were if they would simply follow the law and stop trying to rework society. Any reasonably intelligent person would do, because all they would have to do is read the law and follow it.
I sincerely hope you merely forgot your sarcasm tag... If not, ..."just d*amn"
Sarcasm?
What a great article!
Thank you for posting it.
Wonderful news! This is exactly the right response.
It's so easy. Put up a 10-Commandments poster. Give an ACLU creep a stroke (or force him to spend a bunch'o'cash trying to take your poster down).
Why sarcasm? It is true that "Prohibitions against stealing and killing have religious origin".
And it is true that "As such they violate the separation of state and church."
That is why the Founding Fathers did not try to separate religion from the public sphere and from the state. They knew that without the religion sooner or later both state and society is doomed to collapse.
On the other hand Bolsheviks introduced separation of church and state into the Soviet Constitution (which was an inspiration for American secularists). Full implementation was very bloody and the results were disastrous. After not so many years Stalin was forced to open churches and bring back some presence of religion in order to be able to fight against Nazi Germany.
Full separation of the church and state requires eradication of religious inspiration from the law. It means that the any laws which are based on moral principles need to be removed. Why? It is because there are no morality without religion.
The very concept of good and evil has its source in religion.
Great. So we can expect all crime to stop in GA in short order, right?
If more followed the Ten Commandments, there'd be less need for courthouses and judges.
Thanks for posting this!!! I'm building in Henry County (McDonough) and will be closing this month. Hope they intend to stand their ground.
Add Cherokee county to that list. They announced from the pulpit last Sunday at First Woodstock that one of our members was the spearhead in getting the council to vote on the measure.
GOOD.
Every County should do likewise, and REFUSE to remove them.
The Constitution clearly states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;.."
What the states do is their own concern.
Well and clearly said.
I love Georgia. We will be the last state to fall to a metrosexualized, socialist, amoral, UN-dominated world.
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