Posted on 01/24/2011 5:38:48 AM PST by careyb
RICHMOND, Va. | A school district in southwestern Virginia is re-posting copies of the Bible's Ten Commandments in all county schools, despite concerns that doing so is unconstitutional.
The five-member Giles County School Board voted unanimously to restore the framed, 4-foot-tall, biblical texts after parents and local ministers complained about their removal from the district's five schools and its technology center. The decision was made even though the board's attorney advised that such Christian displays represent unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.
The Ten Commandments were up on school walls in Giles County for at least a decade next to framed copies of the U.S. Constitution. School officials took them down and replaced them with the Declaration of Independence in mid-December after a resident complained. The board reversed that decision Thursday after several parents and pastors, joined by a throng of supporters, told the board that the schools had a moral obligation to reinforce God's teachings.
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That’ll put us as close to “The Source” as possible.
Seems basically the same to me.
Dead Sea Scrolls?
What “originals” do you refer to?
And yes, absolutely, we should use as close to originals as possible, with a faithful translation meant to be understood by all people...
ooops, is that “Catholic Bashing”?
Actually, there is a marked difference.
The “Protestant” Big 10 has 4 “verticals” and 6 “horizontals”,
and the “Catholic” Big 10 has 3 “verticals” and 7 “horizontals”, leaving out “make no idols” and splitting “do not covet” into two commandments.
Good news Monday! First the Steelers and now this! ;-)
OK, so then you would not care which version of the 10 Commandments is posted right?
IBTZ
I don’t believe you would care which version either -
you’d oppose any reminder of
There is a God,
It isn’t you,
and He has a right to, and will, judge you according to His standards, not yours.
Then what difference would it make to you what language or what version was posted?
And what would that be?
I don't think it's the government's job to remind us. I don't think I'd like it to be the government's job to remind us.
That would, I assume, be the Jewish version.
As I suspected.
You are the one who misused the word ‘recognize’. It’s not my job to be your dictionary.
That wasn't my argument. Nice try - Take your anti-Christian bigotry elsewhere.
Conservatives consider displays of the Ten Commandments to be part of "Traditional American Values." W=Heck, we even consider school prayer to be part of "Traditional American Values." Even if we don't actively advocate for them, we at least don't subscribe to a liberal prohibitionist interpretation of the Establishment Clause.
Now that the mask has slipped, perhaps you would be better served by participating in one of the Liberal web forums elsewhere. I have it on good authority that there are fewer joooos posting there, and the ones that do are of the self-loathing variety.
“Tell the ACLU to bring their guns if they want to take them down again.”
Easy to say. Most of SW Virginia is poor. The ACLU would bankrupt them very quickly. I would hope that conservatives and Christian groups nationwide would support them if it comes to law suits.
It is some of the prettiest countryside you’ll ever see, tho. Quite literally “God’s Country.”
No, I think he meant literally “guns”,
not “big guns” meaning lawyers.
It's those darn joooos again.
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