Posted on 09/06/2001 8:11:05 AM PDT by ClancyJ
URGENT ALERT: Ten Commandments
Will you stand with me to support a new bill in Congress called the "Ten Commandments Protection Act" that will stop the ACLU's insidious campaign to ban the Ten Commandments from our society?
Click here for more information and to sign:
PETITION TO SUPPORT THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS PROTECTION ACT"
"Ten Commandments Project" is conducting this petition drive because the ACLU is using the courts to strip the Ten Commandments from our cities and towns. In fact, they just won another victory in Indiana.
But now we can fight back! My contacts on Capitol Hill have informed me that this new bill -- The Ten Commandments Protection Act -- will be introduced in Congress very soon.
I want to be on hand when the announcement is made to present your signed petition along with petitions from 50,000 citizens across America.
Please take a moment right now to sign. Then, help me spread the word to your friends who are concerned about faith and morality in our society using our breakthrough "grassfire" system.
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PETITION TO SUPPORT THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS PROTECTION ACT"
Thank you so much for your help.
Rob Schenck
Ten Commandments Project
An Outreach of Faith & Action
P.S. When you sign this petition, you will be shocked to discover how the complaint of one person in Elkhart, Indiana, caused the Ten Commandments to be defeated in federal court. Just one person! Please help me rally 50,000 people in a united show of support for the "Ten Commandments Act".
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"The Ten Commandments Project" is an outreach of Faith and Action - Rob and Paul Schenck's Ministry to the Nation's capital. With its National Ministry Center next to the U.S. Supreme Court building, Faith and Action is a strong voice for faith and values before our nation's leaders in Washington, D.C.
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Could a municipality declare an official religion, mandate attendance at its services, levy tithes as taxes, outlaw other religions, burn down their buildings and jail its practicioners?
Just curious.
Court ruling seem to indicate otherwise.
The 14th Amendment guarantees the protection of the rights of all U.S. citizens, regardless of the municipality in which they live.
Otherwise, you argue that when cities like New York ban gun rights, they are acting constitutionally. (They are not)
An act that is tyranny at the federal or state level is tyranny at the county and city level, too.
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation
of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
--Thomas Jefferson: Bill for Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers 2:545
They already have been, in NO violation of the first amendment. Otherwise you would have to take a sandblaster to the supreme court building.
Not on my dime. Reverent or blasphemous, I don't want the government subsidizing anyone's religious expression. If you want to drag the NEA into this, I am of course against their subsidies as well.
I can think of a dozen reasons to take a sandblaster to the Supreme Court, can't you?
(And here - have some Kool-Aid.)
Pshaw.
By your reasoning, the Declaration of Independence likewise is "unconstitutional".
Nope, you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
...Unless you are a constitutional revisionist, who wants to ignore the early history of our nation after the constitution was ratified.
In fact, George Washington (in you revisionism) violated the 1st Amndt. almost as soon as it was written.
Well, of course - but that is a different subject. :)
The 10 Commandments are specific to two religions, and the first four
are pretty exclusionary to other religions and those without religion.
(I got some Kool-Aid for you, too. Cherry flavored.)
Religions have no rights.
Religious messages have no rights.
Individuals have rights.
Government may not infringe on your rights.
Neither will the rest of us pay for your religion,
nor will we display it on our common property as
many-faithed Americans.
And the founders did indeed start violating the Con shortly after ratifying it.
All men are fallible, I am told.
You been DRINKING way too much Kool-Aid yourself, bub.
Unless it's NOT true and you're NOT of the "depends on what your meaning of IS is" crowd.
As reason applied to objective reality guides my morality, and because I am an atheist,
it could metaphorically said that I see "reality" or the "universe" as "Nature's Creator," without
necessity of reverting to mythology.
You alone are not the arbiter of what a metaphor is, nor does your faith
allow you to define what others believe.
Meanwhile, knock back a cup of blood. It's on the house.
Here's plank #10:
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
This seems much more in line with your socialist religion than the 10 commandments. Here's commandment #7:
Thou Shalt Not Steal
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