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Federal Judge Rules Cross Violates Law and Must Be Removed
Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2017 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 06/20/2017 6:43:07 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: allendale

Our city was sued for the same issue.

We have a private group maintain the ten commandments in our local park after the city deeded the small plot to them.

In the end, GOD wins and we still get to keep them right where they they are.


21 posted on 06/20/2017 7:01:55 AM PDT by ThE_RiPpEr. (The Obamanation is over! “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.”)
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To: Kaslin
I PRAY, lawyers all over America grow some and decide to take up some of these insane laws, believing (as I do ) the President Trump would be in the background in the same way he has the cops' backs and the vets.

I firmly believe President Trump wants to correct the insanity, but he can't think of everything all the time.

He needs to read about a lawyer in Pensacola challenging this stupid law (f'rinstance)

22 posted on 06/20/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Kaslin
"When a city park serving all citizens – nonreligious, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian – contains a towering Latin cross, this sends a message of exclusion to non-Christians, and a corresponding message to Christians that they are favored citizens,” said Annie Gaylor, the organization’s perpetually offended co-founder.

Using that logic, a playground in a city park sends a message that people with children are favored citizens.

23 posted on 06/20/2017 7:04:53 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Kaslin

There sometimes need to be red lines. How about no and take to the streets to stop the enemies of Western civilization?


24 posted on 06/20/2017 7:05:17 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

Appeal to a judge that understands the Constitution.


25 posted on 06/20/2017 7:10:46 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Kaslin

>>Should Christian citizens be relegated to some sort of second-class citizenship? Should they be directed to keep their beliefs hidden inside the church house?

Read the book of Acts.

Now compare that to a hipster megachurch that freely operates in public, but tones down the “God talk” so as to not offend the “seekers” who choose a church based on amenities.


26 posted on 06/20/2017 7:11:06 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Old Yeller

To the left, without a doubt.


27 posted on 06/20/2017 7:11:24 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

f the Christian religion may not act to worship in the public square, then the Christian ethos - caring for a fellow man - has no place in policy making - or guilt tripping Christian citizens to part with their wealth.


28 posted on 06/20/2017 7:11:35 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Kaslin

Another win for Annie Laurie Nutjob.


29 posted on 06/20/2017 7:11:35 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Kaslin

If the Christian religion may not act to worship in the public square, then the Christian ethos - caring for a fellow man - has no place in policy making - or guilt tripping Christian citizens to part with their wealth.


30 posted on 06/20/2017 7:11:45 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: DonkeyBonker

Yes they will.


31 posted on 06/20/2017 7:12:08 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Kaslin

“”violated the law and must come down. “”

I am not a constitutional scholar but the 1st Amendment forbids Congress from passing a law establishing or prohibiting a religion. Exactly WHAT LAW is being violated?

Are we EVER going to return to common sense? Someone wrote a book years ago about that but this will do:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/commonsen.htm

Except I believe as the article says, it’s dead and gone...


32 posted on 06/20/2017 7:13:02 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: DonkeyBonker

“One day, they will all bow their knees to the King of Kings. So much for their offense.”

Yep.

5.56mm


33 posted on 06/20/2017 7:15:37 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: bigbob

Annie Laurie Nutjob?


34 posted on 06/20/2017 7:16:17 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Ouderkirk

“But, the law is the law.”

.... Except when we’re talking sanctuary cities, recreational marijuana, sodomy, and other liberal pipe dreams.


35 posted on 06/20/2017 7:17:50 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: stylin19a

He’s saying he has no spine to do the right thing and instead is cowering to follow more current trend then the actual foundations of our country.

He’s saying he puts his job above doing the right thing,

He’s saying he’s not up to the challenge of standing firm with our forefathers, but wants to save face and not annoy people who likely would find a way to retaliate if he allowed the cross to stay put.

If as he writes the cross would be allowed by our Founding fathers than that is the only basis the judge needed to make his ruling. He could have left it at that and let the whiners take it to supreme court instead he took the easy way.

We have way too many wimpy judges ruling from ease and feelings and twisted cases over the years than from roots of our country’s foundational documents and their intent.


36 posted on 06/20/2017 7:21:47 AM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Red Badger

What liberals fear most.


37 posted on 06/20/2017 7:22:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: allendale

Amen. A lady in Tomball, Texas has had a huge cross erected on private land to honor her late son. It’s right on the new and well traveled Grand Parkway.

I hope a private landowner does the same thing within eyesight of the Florida park. I also want the courts to rule that it’s offensive to Christians to have to hear the morning call to Muslim prayer.


38 posted on 06/20/2017 7:22:58 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: Kaslin

www.thepinkarmadillo.com/2017/03/24/125-foot-giant-tomball-cross


39 posted on 06/20/2017 7:25:03 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: IrishBrigade

I went to 35 and saw no answer.
So I will interject; Jesus conquered death, the consequence
of being ungodly.


40 posted on 06/20/2017 7:25:05 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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