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To: Quark2005

If a school teacher places the 10 commandments on the wall... congress has made no law respecting an establishment of religion

If the congress or the courts (by legislating from the bench) declare that a teacher can't place the 10 commandments on the wall.. then the government has prohibited the free exercise thereof.

seems pretty cut and dry to me

only a liberal with an agenda could see it otherwise.





29 posted on 06/01/2005 12:48:49 PM PDT by Nyboe ( if rich democrats really want the rich to be taxed more ... then by all means TAX RICH DEMOCRATS)
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To: Nyboe
If the congress or the courts (by legislating from the bench) declare that a teacher can't place the 10 commandments on the wall.. then the government has prohibited the free exercise thereof.

No argument from me there. If the teacher starts using paid salary time in class to preach them, though, I think they've crossed a line. (I'm not backing any draconian measures should it happen; but it is inappropriate.)

A voluntary Bible study on their own time after school is a different story, though; the federal/Supreme courts have repeatedly upheld that viewpoint, if I'm not mistaken.

33 posted on 06/01/2005 1:14:22 PM PDT by Quark2005 (Where's the science?)
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