Posted on 05/14/2005 9:01:49 AM PDT by outlaw1_2003
The inscription ``In God We Trust'' on the facade of a government building in North Carolina does not violate the U.S. Constitution's guidelines on the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower judge's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the slogan written on the Davidson County Government Center in Lexington, N.C.
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I wonder when the SCOTUS and Congress will figure out their opening prayers are in direct contradiction for the restrictions they impose on the rest of us ... and I wonder when the American people will cast off the nonsensical "church and state separation" crap foisted on us by the godless ACLU types.
Well since it was a government building, they should have added four more words to it....
"All others pay Cash".
OK Ronnie "boy" Reagan. You win....you rule. I am all for cloning now!
So lets clone these N.C. judges and distribute them widely and replace the activist judicial tyrants like a fungus among us presently.
Lets start with that pro-gay federal judge in Nebraska.
Sounds good to me.
as if the message isn't clear...
the words are ok as long as they aren't really meant
No it sure doesn't..mainly because there are no such guidelines..
AND...the haters of our nation and our Founding Father's vision can't show you any either..as they have made it up out of whole cloth..
imo
Yes, but it's ridiculous that it should have required a court decision.
Yes. "The court said the inscription would be unconstitutional if it served a religious purpose."
An extremely insulting pronouncement, and cowardly too, as the clear indication is that they WOULD rule it out if they didn't know full well it would lead to mass insurrection.
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