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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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28 Jun 2005 04:12:59 AM |
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Justices Allow a Commandments Display, Bar Others |
Justices Allow a Commandments Display, Bar Others
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28commandments.html?pagewanted=all
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The court allowed Ten Commandments displays at the Texas Capitol but
not at two Kentucky courthouses.
Supreme Court
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/8f16a6412ad5196c
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| User: "Lars Eighner" |
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| Title: Re: Justices Allow a Commandments Display, Bar Others |
28 Jun 2005 06:24:55 AM |
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In our last episode,
<1119949979.762201.49030@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, the
lovely and talented maff broadcast on alt.atheism:
Justices Allow a Commandments Display, Bar Others
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28commandments.html?pagewanted=all
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The court allowed Ten Commandments displays at the Texas Capitol but
not at two Kentucky courthouses.
Supreme Court
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/8f16a6412ad5196c
It just have a few remarks about the Texas thing, for anyone who
hasn't been here. First of all, there is no doubt that the
monument has a religious intent. The Magen David and the
Chi-Rho monogram are very clearly etched on it and it has all
the trappings to make it look Biblical, and there isn't any
context, such as the Supreme Courts freize has, to suggest that
it is about law rather than religion. That being said, it is
about as unintrusive as it could be. I've been to the capitol
scores, maybe hundreds, of times - scratch that - maybe
thousands of times (because for a while, I walked to and from
work right through the dome). I've been there on official
business, on personal business, for official events, for
demonstrations, for official tours, for picnics, and for just
lying around in the grass, and I never noticed it until this
case came up. Most of the monuments on the Capitol grounds are
larger than lifesize, and the Ten Commandments is about the size
of a family headstone. It's off to one side, and if you didn't
run into accidentally, you would have know what you were looking
for to find it. In color (pink granite) and style it is pretty
much in keeping with everything else at the capitol and doesn't
stand out in any way.
--
Rev. Lars Eighner ULC Atheist #1965 http://www.larseighner.com/
"For god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever would believe in him would believe in anything."
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