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Appeals Court Sued for 'Commandments' Seal
Yahoo News ^ | 02-08-05 | WestVirginiaRebel

Posted on 02/08/2005 9:07:45 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel

SAN FRANCISCO-The federal appeals court that ruled the Pledge of Allegiance was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion is being sued for allegedly displaying the Ten Commandments on its seal and courthouse.

The case was brought by an attorney who was admintted to practice before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in June. In his lawsuit against the San Francisco-based court, Ryan Donlon said the certificate admitting him contains the court's seal which unlawfully contains what he believes is a tablet object representing the Ten Commandments.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: antitheist; churchandstate; idiots; lawsuits
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1 posted on 02/08/2005 9:07:45 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

"..unlawfully contains what he believes is a tablet object representing the Ten Commandments."

A tablet object? How offensive.


2 posted on 02/08/2005 9:12:54 PM PST by Peace will be here soon
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To: Peace will be here soon

"A tablet object?"

And all this time I thought it was Aspirin. It must be acid the way it makes people go crazy!


3 posted on 02/08/2005 9:15:00 PM PST by Socratic (Ignorant and free? It's not to be! - T. Jefferson (paraphrase))
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
When are they going to sue the Declaration of Independence for being a promotion of religion?
4 posted on 02/08/2005 9:16:15 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

This man has obviously spent too much of his childhood fiddling with himself!


5 posted on 02/08/2005 9:16:29 PM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: MarineBrat

No, I think he is giving the court a taste of its own medicine. He's just harrassing the idiot judges.


6 posted on 02/08/2005 9:18:57 PM PST by speedy
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To: speedy

The offending seal:

http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/ladyj.gif


7 posted on 02/08/2005 9:20:59 PM PST by DryFly
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

This does appear fraught with humor, but it is only a matter of when, not whether the Anti-Christian Litigants'Union (ACLU) will target the symbols of Christianity that adorn the U. S. Supreme Court Building.


8 posted on 02/08/2005 9:32:09 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Am I correct in believing that the ten commandments are on the wall in the United States Supreme Court? I heard that this was the case...


9 posted on 02/08/2005 9:32:59 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: DryFly

Those tablets in the seal seem pretty clearly to me to be a representation of the Ten Commandments. Maybe the court will have to rule itself unconstitutional and go out of business.


10 posted on 02/08/2005 9:36:39 PM PST by speedy
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To: Peace will be here soon
unlawfully contains

Unlawfully? What law?

11 posted on 02/08/2005 9:42:36 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Will work for cool tag line.)
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To: speedy
He's just harrassing the idiot judges

Don't count on it. The 9th Circuit is the most liberal in the country. That seal will be changed to a rainbow or smurf before the summer is over.

12 posted on 02/08/2005 9:47:36 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Will work for cool tag line.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

A smurf would be a great symbol for the Ninth. Don't give them any ideas.


13 posted on 02/08/2005 9:53:11 PM PST by speedy
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
"an attorney who was admintted to practice before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in June."

This young man obviously wants to make a name for himself so that he too can someday be a justice on the 9th Circus.

14 posted on 02/08/2005 10:11:38 PM PST by holyscroller (A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Moses and the 10 commandments on the US Supreme Court Building



Here's a question for you ACLU members: is the US Constitution "unconstitutional" because at there very end it has written "In the year of OUR LORD?"
15 posted on 02/08/2005 10:22:30 PM PST by w6ai5q37b
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Hahahahahahahaha!!! He's getting the stupid idiot judges back for their ruling against the Pledge!

Oh! My sides hurt I'm laughing so hard!! Hahahahaha!!!


16 posted on 02/08/2005 10:53:10 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://music.download.com/gloriajane)
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