Posted on 10/12/2004 8:48:43 AM PDT by Greek
Yep. So does the old Library of Congress building and the Capitol.
Liberals want this renamed "The Ten Suggestions"
In some cases, it's just culturally relevant decoration, no different than that Greek goddess holding scales of justice in her hands. They should get over it. In 200 years they'll probably have a picture of a punk-rocker hung in some courtroom hallway.
In other cases, it's just additional posted info. You can't allow some info posted and reject other info because you don't like the message.
Inaccurate reporting/editorializing alert. A factually accurate account would read as follows: The Constitution bars any state act of congress regarding an "establishment" of religion. That means Activist judges have contrued this to mean that state and local governments cannot promote religion in general, or favor one faith over another (or even publicly recognize the role faith has played in the history of the state or local community).
If they strike down the Moses on their own building we should just raise the building and put the Supreme court into a Home Depot looking building, with metal exterior shaped like a box.
"Interesting, don't the Supremes have the 10 Commandments in their building?"
Yeah, and they have a statue of Mohammed on the wall, too. Actually, I don't believe there are any words on the tablets on that building. It's part of a frieze, called "The Lawgivers," and also includes Hammurabi. It's an equal opportunity frieze.
Well, it would be more of a culturally relevant display if the words were written in Hebrew.
Here's a list:
"In the Supreme Court's white marble courtroom, the nine sitting justices are not the only presiding presence. At the center of the nation's legal system, high above the justices' mahogany bench, the great lawgivers of history are depicted in marble friezes.
From Hammurabi to Moses to John Marshall, the stone sculptures commemorate written law as a force for stability in human affairs. The larger-than-life artworks, designed by architectural sculptor Adolph A. Weinman as the courthouse was being built in the early 1930s, convey the idea that, while the law begins with individuals, its principles never die.
The 18 lawgivers looking down on the justices are divided into two friezes of ivory-colored, Spanish marble. On the south wall, to the right of incoming visitors, are figures from the pre-Christian era -- Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian (Caesar Augustus). On the north wall to the left are lawmakers of the Christian era -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Marshall, William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, Louis IX, King John, Charlemagne, Muhammad and Justinian."
Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves when they hear of what judicial idiots have "found" in the constitution.
I don't see why it would matter either way.
The 10 Commandments have a relevant place in western culture (to include English.)
My guess is that they first penetrated western culture about 2.5 millennia ago. They hit England sometime in the tenure of the 1st century church.
More likely, liberals will call this "Hate Speech".
> My guess is that they first penetrated western culture about 2.5 millennia ago. They hit England sometime in the tenure of the 1st century church.
Yes, but it didn't stick. Christianity didn't really make a dent in Britain until the 700's or so. Pre-Christian heathen faiths were still dominant for quite some time.
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