Posted on 01/12/2006 10:15:16 AM PST by Republic of Reagan
Sometimes it’s hard to find a ray of light in the American judicial system but once in a while the sun comes shining through. In a shocking display of clarity and common sense, a federal appeals court judge ruled last month that the Ten Commandments may remain on a wall in a Mercer County, Kentucky courthouse.
The case concerned a display entitled, “Foundations of American Law and Government,” which, in addition to the Commandments, also includes; the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Magna Carta, the Star-Spangled Banner, Lady Justice and the National Motto “In God We Trust.”
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court muddied the constitutional waters when they issued a split decision on two cases concerning the Ten Commandments; ruling that they may remain on a monument in Texas while prohibiting their display in two McCreary County, Kentucky courthouses.
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If you want to make a mockery out of this ACLU nonsense just ask anyone if the crosses of our war dead belong in places like Arlington or any of the thousands of veterans cemetaries around the US.
Crosses, representing Christ, paid for by the US Government, honoring those who paid with their lives to keep us free.
In that most proper light, the ACLU is seen for what it is, a bunch of Anti American scam artists.
Good News. Judge Moore will be vindicated as long good people continue to fight harder, smarter and longer than the SOBs trying to destroy this country. If there is any doubt about that, watch the Alito hearings.
Hehehe, catchy..may I borrow it?!
BRAVO !!! BRAVO !!!
To hell with the ACLU I say !!!
They are indeed anti-American, and they certainly employ deceptive tactics. But would to God, that all they were, were scam artists!! Unfortunately, the ACLU represents a multi-generational attack on the core perceptions of the American people. With allies such as the NAACP (1909 onward) and the ADL (1913) onward, the ACLU (from 1920) has often been the "point" group, in a Fabian effort to completely alter the way Americans see, debate and resolve, major social and ethical issues.
The effect of this onslaught has already been far more serious than is generally perceived, because it has been a gradual erosion of our core beliefs--a destruction by baby-steps, if you will--with no generation seeing in its own time, the full effect.
For more on what the ACLU has sought to accomplish, both in undermining American religious Faith and in general, see Leftwing Word Games & American Religious Freedom.
William Flax
I understand that their major funding comes from a government law passed in the 60's to re imburse attorneys who take on "civil rights" cases.
That was the premise for my scam artists statement. Without that law they would be largely unfunded.
Perhaps an effort to repeal this law would hit them in their pockets.
Remember that the ACLU was successfully pursuing cases that eroded the freedom of local communities to observe community values, long before the 1960s.
STFU ACLU
My headline
10 Commandments Deny ACLU can remain!
I can't speak definitively to the Kentucky Constitution or the Magna Carta, but all those other documents contain references to God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases. Anyone see a pattern here?
>>>I can't speak definitively to the Kentucky Constitution or the Magna Carta, but all those other documents contain references to God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases. Anyone see a pattern here?
I fail to see much of a pattern
Lady Justice -- She is said to have been inspired by Themis, a goddess in Greek mythology.
Bill of Rights -- No mention of God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases.
Star-Spangled Banner -- No mention of God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases in the first stanza.
Lady Justice -- not a DOCUMENT.
Bill of Rights -- No mention of God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases.
Correct. No mention of God at all in the Constitution. I withdraw the observation.
Star-Spangled Banner -- No mention of God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases in the first stanza.
"And thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their lov'd homes, and the war's desolation;
Blest with victory and peace, may this heaven-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved it a nation.
Then conquer we must, if our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God Is Our Trust."
The Star-Spangled Banner, fourth verse.
Also, not a document, per se.
National Motto “In God We Trust"
National Motto -- not a DOCUMENT.
So that leaves us with Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence. Since both contain references to God, the Almighty, or one of the Heavenly Father's many aliases, I now see the pattern.
Not all documents, but certainly a theme begins to emerge. At least for those who are not wilfully blind.
Same applies to the Kentucky Constitution's preamble.
Out of the eight examples cited, all but two have oblique or overt references to God.
Does that help you see the pattern?
[Hint: the pattern is "God," as in the moral authority from which all our laws and customs derive.]
Good news bump.
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