Moving morality - Ten Commandments on wheels (Caption this!)

[amexmike]

CAPTION THIS PHOTO

[tdadams]

See post 20.

[tdadams]

There is no first amendment guarantee of a 2.5 gallon toilet, unlike your religious freedom.

[Sloth]

[Lost Highway]

So you feel secure in the premise that becuase the Constitution says something it will always be "interpreted" by the Supreme Court that way?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Det cord.

[RoughDobermann]

Don't forget Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion". He made a movie straight out of the Gospels and it was classified as "hateful and just made to stir up anger"

Sure, you can't please everyone, can you? Did you classify Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ as "hateful and just made to stir up anger?"

[palmer]

There is no first amendment guarantee of a 2.5 gallon toilet

There's no second amendment right to an individual owning a toilet, only to communal toilets run by the states.

[tdadams]

I don't see the right to worship the way you wish in your own home or church being under any threat in this country, ever.

There are many who seem to think that the first amendment guarantees them the right to promote their religion in public buildings, which, strangely is nearly antithetical to what the amendment actually says.

[RoughDobermann]

There are many who seem to think that the first amendment guarantees them the right to promote their religion in public buildings, which, strangely is nearly antithetical to what the amendment actually says.

While I think many people are overreacting to the situation in Alabama, it does lead one to think what could be next. I'm not religious at all, but I shudder to think of people being forbidden to wear, say, a cross or Star of David on a necklace in a courthouse or public school. After all, doesn't that qualify as "promotion of religion?" Does it make a difference if such a "promotion of religion" is worn on the person, and not a big chunk of stone?

[FreeRep]

Here's Ten Commandments Poll.


http://www.hdnews.net/


Thanks

[floriduh voter]

The devil came down from Georgia.

[floriduh voter]

Ping here. Folks, there's an outrage going on in Florida involving a disabled woman. Please check out windchime's link that will be here shortly or on Friday. There are four or five Terri Schiavo threads but the one posted by windchime right here has email addresses and phone numbers, including the media. Thanks in advance. We need your help and ping everyone you know in case they want to help.

[floriduh voter]

I heard the monument was going on tour. The Governor of Alabama said so? The aclu and southern poverty law center will just file another lawsuit but if the monument goes on tour of buildings like the Capital, by the time the "taliban" get an order to have the Ten Commandments removed, the Commandments will be on the road again to another public building.

[windchime]

Urgent:

Freepers call to action re. Terri Schindler-Schiavo

Link to Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation for Additional Information

 

[Between the Lines]

I don't see the right to worship the way you wish in your own home or church being under any threat in this country, ever.

If you were a Branch Davidian you might feel differently.

[melsec]

A friend of mine was at their church the other day and they were debating same sex relationships for ministers. She pointed to the Bible as our reference and was told hatefully and angrily "keep the Bible out of this!". If people within the church can see the Bible as some thing to be vehemently avoided then what about the rest of the world.

God Bless

Mel

[strela]

Det cord.

Philistine. That's a waste of perfectly good statuary-quality marble.

Artificial reef.

[strela]

There's no second amendment right to an individual owning a toilet ...

Actually, the Bible has some very interesting things to say on the subject:

"Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee."
Deuteronomy 23:12-13

Do all of those good, Bible-believin' folk whining and crying about this rock being moved out of a public courthouse really dig a slit trench each and every time they need to relieve themselves? If not, then why should the rest of us be expected to follow Biblical teaching when they can't be bothered to do so themselves?

[f.Christian]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972219/posts?q=1&&page=101

To: lugsoul

Jusge Moore is standing up for the rights of all. Religious freedom is for all.
Free speech is for all. The first amendment is for all. The ACLU is trying to
restrict our freedoms to only what they approve (atheism).



129 posted on 08/28/2003 3:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

(Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND...
ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)

[Between the Lines]

So you feel secure in the premise that becuase the Constitution says something it will always be "interpreted" by the Supreme Court that way?

You make a very good point. Justice Story, one of the first Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court, in 1833 wrote Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States in which he says:

"In some of the states, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others, Congregationalists; in others Quakers; and in others again, there was a close numerical rivalry among contending sects. It was impossible that there should not arise perpetual strife and perpetual jealousy on the subject of ecclesiastical ascendancy, if the national government were left free to create a religious establishment. The only security was in extirpating the power. But this alone would have been an imperfect security, if it had not been followed up by a declaration of the free exercise of religion and a prohibition ... of all religious tests. Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State Governments to be acted upon according to their sense of justice and the state constitutions."

The First Amendment concerning religion is generally divided into two clauses: the Establishment Clause - “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion;” and the Free Exercise Clause - “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” At the time of adoption, and for over a hundred years after, the Bill of Rights was construed to apply only to the federal legislature. The Free Exercise Clause wasn't extended to the states until 1940, and the Establishment Clause wasn't extended to the states until 1947.