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To: Zack Nguyen
Comparing the fight to keep the Ten Commandments on display to George Wallace's desperate fight for racist segregation is so perverse I can't find the words.

It's also grossly inaccurate. The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, which is diametrically in opposition to segregation. Indeed, the 14th Amendment was the official follow-up to the Emancipation Proclamation, being a constitutional prohibition against slavery.

Meanwhile, those who would (deliberately, it seems) misinterpret the 14th Amendment to extend federal jurisdiction over all matters originally reserved to the states use it as a basis for supporting the usurpation of state powers (what used to be called the "states' rights" issue) explicitly protected under the 10th Amendment.

For what it's worth, "perverse" seems to be a pretty good word for it to me.

63 posted on 12/10/2002 1:25:46 PM PST by Imal
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To: Imal
The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law

Which is why even state established religions are now forbidden -- since such state laws would violate the equal protection of the rights of members of other religions.

You all can dream on, but the USSC will never allow blatant religious displays on federal, state, or local government property.

86 posted on 12/10/2002 4:03:04 PM PST by jlogajan
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