[snopercod]

The Ten Commandments case against Chief Justice Roy Moore spotlights the need for legislation forbidding federal courts from encroaching on the powers of the states and the people.

Why do we need legislation? It's already in the U.S. Constitution:

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The U.S. Congress is specifically forbidden from making laws regarding the establishment of a religion, but the states are not.

[monocle]

Passage of the 17th Amendment underlies many of the current problems relating to states' rights and the interpretation of the Bill of Rights as a whole. Once the right of state legislatures to appoint senators was abolished the skids to greater central power were greased.

[gunnedah]

Alan Keyes is one of the smartest men in America. But like any other conservative black man is not considered a black.
He in actaulity is despised by the so call black laedership and with the help of the liberals will always be held at bay. Look at all conservative bright liberals and the are being kept out of the picture because they are the greatest threat to the hold the Jacksons and Mufume have on their people.
The black leadership in America today is no different than the leadership that rounded them up in Africa and sold them into slavery!A mind is a terrible thing to waste so let us control it.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

14th Amendment cures that - as well as over a century of ruling by the very branch of government empowered to interpret under the Constitution.

[Happy2BMe]

"The U.S. Congress is specifically forbidden from making laws regarding the establishment of a religion, but the states are not."

As Dr. Dobson has said, "The judicial branch is railroading the American people."

In the case of removing God from government, we see this over and over and over again.

Poll after poll indicates the overwhelming majority of Americans disagree with removing God:

Take the Poll

Do you agree with a federal judge's ruling last week that a Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building violates the Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion and must be removed?
Yes	11.6%	52
No	87.9%	393
No Opinion	0.4%

[gogeo]

Why do we need legislation? It's already in the U.S. Constitution: Amendment X

Well, ok...how do we then address it?

[TheFrog]

Re: "The U.S. Congress is specifically forbidden from making laws regarding the establishment of a religion, but the states are not." So, are saying that a state such as California could lawfully ban a religion such as Christianity.

Alternatively, on a broader scale are you saying that any state could establish a religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridge the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the remove the right of the people peaceably to assemble, or prevent the petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Is your name Stalin by any chance.

On a lighter note, let us look at this amendment, as it existed in the Virginia Constitution before it included in the United States Constitution.

That religion or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. And the General Assembly shall not prescribe any religious test whatever, or confer any peculiar privileges or advantages on any sect or denomination, or pass any law requiring authorizing any religious society, or the people of any district within this Commonwealth, to levy on themselves or others, any tax for the erection or repair of any house of public worship, or for the support of any church or ministry; but it shall be left free to every person to select his religious instructor, and to make for his support such private contract as he shall please.