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To: Aquinasfan
What law is immoral?... Was Alabama less of a moral state before this graven image was erected?

It is not immoral to remove this statue. You people are more concerned with the image rather than following the Ten Commandments.
130 posted on 08/20/2003 5:27:06 AM PDT by BamaG
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To: BamaG
The concept of graven images is derived from the Bible, specifically the First Commandment, which forbids the making of images of God. Deuteronomy 27:15 and Psalms 97:7 refer to the household gods of idolaters. A representation of the Ten Commandments is hardly a graven image, since it is not a god.

The bottom line is that the issue of Chief Justice Moore's display of the Ten Commandments represents a fault line between real Americans, who adhere to the Biblical principles on which our nation's institutions were predominantly founded, and secular humanists, who reject the need for laws and customs to be founded upon immutable principles, even if they are nominally Christians or Jews. It is the secular humanists whose beliefs are ahistorical and subversive to the principles of the Founding Fathers.

However, the secular humanists control the mainstream media, the Democratic Party, much of the Republican Party, and the judiciary, including a majority of the Supreme Court. The Feds have the guns; it appears that the Alabama Attorney General will cooperate with them. Barring a truly massive outpouring of public support (it is hard to picture Federal marshalls clubbing and teargassing their way through thousands of nonviolent demonstrators), the monument will come down. I do not foresee massive civil disobedience taking place.

Thus passes the glory of America.

134 posted on 08/20/2003 6:09:31 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: BamaG
It is not immoral to remove this statue.

I think it is because the action is saying, in effect, "the Ten Commandments are antithetical to the law."

246 posted on 08/21/2003 5:15:58 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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