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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48006
LAW OF THE LAND
1st Amendment 'doesn't create church-state wall of separation'
Court whacks civil-liberties group, OKs Ten Commandments display
Posted: December 20, 2005
4:32 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A U.S. appeals court today upheld the decision of a lower court in allowing
the inclusion of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse display, hammering
the American Civil Liberties Union and declaring, "The First Amendment does
not demand a wall of separation between church and state."
Attorneys from the American Center for Law and Justice successfully argued
the case on behalf of Mercer County, Ky., and a display of historical
documents placed in the county courthouse. The panel voted 3-0 to reject
the ACLU's contention the display violated the Establishment Clause of the
Constitution.
The county display the ACLU sued over included the Ten Commandments, the
Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the
Star Spangled Banner, the national motto, the preamble to the Kentucky
Constitution, the Bill of Rights to the U. S. Constitution and a picture of
Lady Justice.
Writing for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Richard Suhrheinrich
said the ACLU's "repeated reference 'to the separation of church and state'
.... has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of
separation between church and state."
Suhrheinrich wrote: "The ACLU, an organization whose mission is 'to ensure
that ... the government [is kept] out of the religion business,' does not
embody the reasonable person."
The court said a reasonable observer of Mercer County's display appreciates
"the role religion has played in our governmental institutions, and finds
it historically appropriate and traditionally acceptable for a state to
include religious influences, even in the form of sacred texts, in honoring
American traditions."
Francis J. Manion, counsel for the ACLJ, argued the case before both the
6th Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Kentucky.
"This is a big victory for the people of Mercer County and Kentucky
generally," Manion said. "For too long they have been lectured like
children by those in the ACLU and elsewhere who claim to know what the
people's Constitution really means. What the 6th Circuit has said is that
the people have a better grasp on the real meaning of the Constitution; the
court recognizes that the Constitution does not require that we strip the
public square of all vestiges of our religious heritage and traditions."
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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| Title: Re: 1st Amendment 'doesn't create church-state wall of separation'Court whacks civil-liberties group, OKs Ten Commandments display |
21 Dec 2005 12:23:08 PM |
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<buckeye-elo@nospam.net> wrote in message
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48006
LAW OF THE LAND
1st Amendment 'doesn't create church-state wall of separation'
Court whacks civil-liberties group, OKs Ten Commandments display
Posted: December 20, 2005
4:32 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Of course World Nut Daily would have this kind of crap!
A U.S. appeals court today upheld the decision of a lower court in
allowing
the inclusion of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse display, hammering
the American Civil Liberties Union and declaring, "The First Amendment
does
not demand a wall of separation between church and state."
Why is it that fanatical idiots bellow and bray when a "lower courst" says
something they like - but totally ignore it when the Supreme Court shoots
down their crap?
Attorneys from the American Center for Law and Justice successfully argued
the case on behalf of Mercer County, Ky., and a display of historical
documents placed in the county courthouse. The panel voted 3-0 to reject
the ACLU's contention the display violated the Establishment Clause of the
Constitution.
The county display the ACLU sued over included the Ten Commandments, the
Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the
Star Spangled Banner, the national motto, the preamble to the Kentucky
Constitution, the Bill of Rights to the U. S. Constitution and a picture
of
Lady Justice.
All items, EXCEPT the 10 commandments, come from valid sources other than
religious fairy tales!
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