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Skriven 2010-03-01 20:39:51 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Public Christianity pimps
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On 03/01/2010 04:50 PM, Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:



 RS>>> The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in a new dispute
 RS>>> over a Ten Commandments display on public property.

 RS>>> The justices on Monday left in place a lower court decision that
 RS>>> a Ten Commandments marker in Haskell County, Okla., must go.

 RS>>> The 8-foot-tall stone monument has been on the county courthouse
 RS>>> lawn in Stigler, Okla., since 2004. A federal appeals court
 EH>> ruled last year that it
 RS>>> amounts to an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by the
 RS>>> county commission.

 RS>>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
 RS>>> f=/n/a/2010/03/01/national/w071338S74.DTL&tsp=1

 EH>> Try real hard to explain why this is a good thing. Consider first
 EH>> that the original intent of the First Amendment was a FEDERAL
 EH>> guarantee of freedom of religion that did NOT supersede individual
 EH>> state constitutions. In fact, the MA constitution originally provided
 EH>> for a state church.

 EH>> The federal government is overreaching its authority on every issue
 EH>> and idiots like you think it's a good thing.

 JB> Next we remove "In God We Trust" from money and the Ten Commandments
 JB> from every public building where it is displayed now. The churches will
 JB> be next.

Exactly. Otto and his fellow travelers believe that "a wall of separation
between church and state" is actually written in the Constitution. What they
don't realize is that the First Amendment isn't a limit on the people, but on
the FEDERAL government (Congress to be precise) and that a display of the 10
Commandments isn't respecting an establishment of religion as it is written in
the amendment.

Ed

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