[exnavy]

Will someone please notify God that the ten commandments have no legal standing.

[greydog]

And while we're at it, let's get all those crosses out of Arlington Cemetery. It's public property, you know.

There's an idea. Have somebody sue to remove those crosses and see what the court says then.

[ASOC]

AT some risk to my flame proof drawers.....

Separating religion from politics IS a big deal - ever wonder why the “prods” and “catholics” (lower case intentional) get by in the good old US of A, when back in the old country- they are willing to kill each other? Because one controls the levers of government - very visible, very much in your face.

That kind of silliness is not really tolerated here, one (specific) sect does not rule...Not convinced? - witness India, Pakistan, Shia vs Sunni, and on and on. Bad news all-around.

Do I agree with the ACLU? Nope, Just making a point that some folks may see the "rock" as more of a threat than you kind souls born and raised in the USA and as a member of the dominate sect....... Please think before you flame, and if you must flame, please do so in a private reply. No reason to tie up the board....

[capt. norm]

Wow!

Just finished saving this into my archives for a longer and more thorough reading.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree. Click below. Sometimes satire and humor are "the best attack on a public humbug," as Mark Twain wrote.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "In the Justices We Trust?" posted on FR, other publication to come.

[SandRat]

Gay Bishops are in, Boy Scouts are out, and sodomy has become a civil right, protected by the Constitution somewhere. Okay, I get it. According to our new god, the oldest industry on earth (agriculture) has become the most dangerous to the environment. And we all know that with all the craziness in schools these days, the last thing we need is prayer inside those buildings. Good thing we threw God out of there a long time ago. Just look at how much schools have improved since then.

Let's simplify the equation, shall we?

Evil and perversion are in and following the tenet of "As for me and my house we follow the ways of the LORD!" are out.

Band together and change this now or suffer the penalty of heaven, as did the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah!

[sweetliberty]

J.J. Johnson, as usual, hit it dead on. Brings to mind an incident I had with a liberal a couple of years back. I posted an article in a political chat room that was more derogatory of President Bush than even most of what we see out there right now. (It wasn't an article I accepted, btw). But it was interesting dynamic to note that in light of that article, one of his harshest critics in the chat room came to his defense. Just thought I'd share.

[FairWitness]

Amendement 1: 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.

Respecting (preposition): With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; "as respecting his conduct there is but one opinion".

Respect (verb):
1) Regard highly; think much of; regard with special attention
2) Show respect towards; regard as worthy of esteem; regard with honor.

Respect (noun):
1) The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to.
2) Esteem; regard; honor.
3) An expression of respect, of deference.

Preposition: A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased.

I wonder how many people who feel that the Ten Commandments do not belong in a public building confuse "respecting" (a preposition that could be replaced by "concerning") with "respect" which implies favoritism, or "giving special consideration to".

My take on the First Amendment is that it tells Congress to not "concern" itself with making laws for or against religion.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

It's just a matter of time when someone files a lawsuit because he is "offended" that Christmas is a paid holiday for government employees.

[tpaine]

"I will do my best here not to preach a sermon or sound like a right-wing zealot."
J.J. Johnson


You failed, J.J.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

My God! Al Gore was right! There is no controlling legal authority!

[Arthur McGowan]

Roy Moore is deliberatly challenging the "Incorporation Doctrine," which has absolutely NO basis in the Constitution. It is the claim that the 13th and 14th Amendments changed the meaning of the first ten Amendments. Thus, "CONGRESS shall make no law..." to establish a federal church means "Anyone on a State payroll shall not do anything overtly religious..."

The totally unconstitutional "Incorporation Doctrine" is subscribed to by EVERY member of the Supreme Court, in violation of their oath of office.

This is the real issue, which Judge Moore has made clear, and which every "conservative" commentator and interviewer I have heard in the last two weeks has utterly failed to clarify.

[cartoonistx]

[metalboy]

Someone should do a test, just a little test, and put some words of the Koran (Quran, how ever you spell it) in some govermnt building and see how fast the ACLU ignores it.

[tutstar]

ping

[swheats]

This ROCK shall not be moved Bump

[VRWC For Truth]

Bump for a good read.

[djf]

"Diversity" is a tool of the power elite. The last thing they want to happen is for people to realize they actually have lot in common, as long as the people think others are different and have different values, then the power is maintained, by national war and class warfare. The single most difficult problem they have facing them is the ideals of a bunch of farmers 200+ years ago. And make no mistake, those ideals were set upon 700 years of English common law.

[strela]

There is no sense looking for a legal loophole to save the Ten Commandments anymore

Doesn't something first have to be lost or in some form of jeopardy before it can be "saved"?

God has no legal standing left in today's courts, government, or much of society.

Isn't God big enough and smart enough to fight His own battles?

[vannrox]

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"...The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation..."

Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788


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