Posted on 06/10/2003 3:03:07 AM PDT by prisoner6
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST UNION, Ohio (AP) -
Protesters, sheriff's deputies and school officials who clashed over a judge's order to remove four giant Ten Commandments tablets from school buildings prayed together after workers loaded the last monument on a truck and drove away.
All four granite tablets were removed by Monday evening.
Earlier, dozens of protesters locked arms and knelt in prayer to hinder workers who had been ordered to remove the monuments from four schools in the Adams County/Ohio Valley School District about 60 miles east of Cincinnati.
Deputies briefly took at least 30 protesters into custody, but later released them without filing charges.
Lawyers for the district told school officials that they would be in contempt of a court order if they did not instruct the sheriff's deputies to remove the protesters from school property.
"A judge's order is a judge's order," said Francis Manion, the school board's lawyer. "We think (the judge) got it wrong, but it's the school board's duty to remove the monuments."
The protesters temporarily blocked a crane from taking the 800-pound granite tablets from three of the schools, but sheriff's deputies removed the protesters from school property.
U.S. Magistrate Timothy Hogan ruled in Cincinnati last year that it is unconstitutional to display the Ten Commandments on public school grounds. He ordered them removed on Monday, after the school year was finished.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued in 1999 on behalf of a Peebles resident who objected to the display. The school district has appealed Hogan's ruling.
"We have to make the decision in America if there's going to be local control of what we're going to teach our children," said Dave Daubenmire, among those protesting at Peebles High. "Is it going to be the people here in the community, or some judge in a courtroom in Washington? The people of Adams County have spoken."
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I think in an earlier thread it mentioned the lawsuit was brought about by a man who formed a church that worships penises. He claimed if the commandments stood, he had the right to erect a stone pahllic symbol on school grounds.
Firstly - why isn't this guy locked up? Wanna bet he's on some kind of medication or has been diagnosed with a mental prblem osf some kind? I wonder if children in his "church" are exposed to phallic symbols and if so wouldn't that be sexual mistreatment of a minor? Why isn't the state doing anything about that or why didn't anyone question that?prisoner6
Secondly he uses totally false reasoning. Just because the tablets were there it does NOT give him the right to erect a phallis.
In my understanding it IS NOT the fed's business, but rather the will of the community. If the community is predominately Jewish that community may place their symbols in the school and ovbserve their holidays. Same thing if it's Hindu, Bhuddist, Moslem or whatever. The ONLY stipulation I can see is that it must be an established religion.
prisoner6
The State. His greatest adversary.
The United States has become a Tyranny of the Minority. Any minority that is offended by some minor irritation can sue the government for redress and impose their will on the majority.
I absolutely despise the ACLU. Filthy, vicious, leftist vermin, all of them. I despise them to the depths of my soul.
I can't say anymore, because anything I say beyond that would only have the cops knocking at my door...
So, the question is, what does the majority do about it?
If I were the kids, here's what I would do:
I would get t-shirts printed up with the monument on it - or just the "Ten Commandments" on them - and then I would have the kids go to work selling them, far and wide - all over town.
The kids could wear them to school every day, surrounding the little athiest vermin in the school so that they have to read them and see them every day - not just in front of the school, now, but in class (I mean, after all, it's free speech, right?) too.
Imagine the shock on the little athiest vermin if they had to encounter the "monuments" (or commandments) on t-shirts everywhere they went around town. In the grocery store, at the movie theater, at the ice cream parlor, in the mall...
I think there's an idea there.
Would teach the filthy, lowlife, leftist vermin at the ACLU a lesson in free speech, too.
My kid is either going to be home schooled, or going to private school. The pathetic public school system is never getting its hands on my child. Never. I wouldn't even think it.
Quickly we need settle once and for all the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights came from the exact same Source, for the lines are drawn...
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