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Judge Moore Ain't Removing Ten Commandments (FOX NEWS)

Posted on 11/19/2002 8:36:24 AM PST by Dallas

You gotta love this guy....


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 10commandments; alabama; benny; judgemoore
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To: andy_card
You can post the Ten Commandments anywhere except on government property.

This statement is incorrect. There is nothing that precludes a sovereign state from displaying the Ten Commandments on state government property unless that state's constitution expressly prohibits it. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution only makes a reference to what Congress (federal government) can or can't do in regard to establishment of religion.

401 posted on 11/19/2002 12:27:45 PM PST by usadave
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To: ppaul
I heard Colin Powell is on his way with a crew...
402 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:00 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: Sacajaweau; G Larry; Boxsford
what would happen if someone stopped me and asked which ones I had broken

with replies:...

Easy! Tell 'em that your human, but this is to remind you of what is right.

You say that your broke them all! As we all have.

Exactly right, and Dittos. I would not say proudly that I've broken them all, but admit I have failed in my duty to God... but I am getting better. Thank-you Lord for your forgiveness, for sending your Son, and for your grace in helping me do better.

403 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:00 PM PST by AFPhys
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To: betty boop; andy_card
Well, where do you think these guys got their ideas from, andy_card? Answer: from the classical and Judeo-Christian traditions of which these men were brilliant exponents, as were the Framers themselves.

Its amazing that so many otherwise intelligent people believe that western civilization began in One AD.

404 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:05 PM PST by Dave S
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To: nicmarlo
Only that nowhere does it state in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution that Americans shall be free from religion.

Let me ask again, maybe more bluntly: What do you mean by "free from religion"?

405 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:39 PM PST by FreeTally
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To: betty boop
Answer: from the classical and Judeo-Christian traditions of which these men were brilliant exponents, as were the Framers themselves.

I disagree. But even assuming you were correct, which you aren't, what does that have to do with the Ten Commandments? The Ten Commandments could hardly have played less a role in the writing of the Constitution.

406 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:45 PM PST by andy_card
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To: Mark Felton
"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
--Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801. ME 10:237
You do understand that those "rags" include much of the Bible (particularly Revelations) and pretty much all of the trappings added to Christianity since Paul of Tarsus, correct?

Jefferson did not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the son of God. This quote makes that rather clear:

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer [Jesus] of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
-Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1810

-Eric

407 posted on 11/19/2002 12:28:53 PM PST by E Rocc
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To: AFPhys
Amen
408 posted on 11/19/2002 12:29:33 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: ApesForEvolution; ppaul
...a crew of isamotrash holding fresh visas...
410 posted on 11/19/2002 12:30:12 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: FF578
Why do you ignore all the case law I posted?
Anything prior to the Bill of Rights at a Federal level or prior to the Fourteenth Amendment at a state level is not relevant. Neither is anything that can be countered by a later Supreme Court case.

-Eric

411 posted on 11/19/2002 12:31:02 PM PST by E Rocc
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To: Jim985
I read the article in its entirety, which btw could serve as an ACLU tract.

The authors admit in the first paragraph that, " ...it's reasonable to assume that the Christian Sabbath is in view here...".

If you disagree with the authors, then what is the origin of this curious phrase in the Constitution, "Sundays excepted". And just for the record, I'm not talking about an ecclesiastical National establishishment of a Sabbath, so don't go off on that.

Cordially,

412 posted on 11/19/2002 12:31:08 PM PST by Diamond
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To: stands2reason
"Tell me how the Buddha's teachings influenced the founding of our country, How many of our founding fathers were Buddhist? "

First tell me how the historical significance of a document has any bearing on freedom of religion. And what is the historical significance of the ten commandants, are they located in the Constitution somewhere? Would they not be more historically significant to the Middle East.

413 posted on 11/19/2002 12:31:34 PM PST by Kerberos
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To: Kerberos
Now, I happen to be a Buddhist and I think that in addition to having the Ten Commandments on display at the courthouse we should also have the Four Noble Truths on display as well, at taxpayer expense of course.

Now you wouldn't have a problem with that would you?

To tell the truth, I would think you would have the problem with it. The public display of the Ten Commandments upsets you (causes your suffering) so much that to feel better you would NEED to have the Four Noble Truths displayed? As a Buddhist, don't you find something strange about that?

414 posted on 11/19/2002 12:31:57 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: alancarp
New Jersey was Dutch and English, not Quaker -- Presbry, Episcopal, Dutch Reformed. Yes there were some Quakers -- mostly in the south, they were a minority.
415 posted on 11/19/2002 12:32:09 PM PST by bvw
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To: Diamond
If you disagree with the authors, then what is the origin of this curious phrase in the Constitution, "Sundays excepted".
It gave the President the option of not working on a Sunday. It did not forbid him from doing so.

-Eric

416 posted on 11/19/2002 12:33:17 PM PST by E Rocc
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To: E Rocc
Which isn't suprising, since one wrote it.

Since he happily plagarized the preamble from Scottish Presbyterians.

Cordially,

417 posted on 11/19/2002 12:33:42 PM PST by Diamond
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To: E Rocc
What is the origin of the phrase?

Cordially,

418 posted on 11/19/2002 12:34:36 PM PST by Diamond
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To: Diamond
See #351. I hope it's prompt enough for you.

The practice of taking Sunday off, while religious perhaps in origin, was completely secular by the 18th century. They had one-day weekends, rather than two. That's no different than referring only to weekdays in official correspondence. Far from a promotion of religion, its simply the acknowledgement that folks don't work then. If that's the best you can do, your argument rests on awfully thin ice.

419 posted on 11/19/2002 12:34:47 PM PST by andy_card
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To: andy_card
There's a big difference between the SCOTUS, the US House of Reps and the Alabama State Judicial Building.

Yep. Alabama ain't Congress.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

420 posted on 11/19/2002 12:34:49 PM PST by Roscoe
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