Originally posted by me on
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads SepChurch&State
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Stretching Van Orden to cover a 10 commandments with no surrounding
context.
This just in - stretching Van Orden to cover a 10 commandments with no
surrounding context. Religious rightists are wondering just how far
they can stretch it, I'm sure.
Neal J. Blanchett, Esq.
(Neal wrote two articles for our Con Principle Website.)
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From: msba
MSBA Court Opinions
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:10 PM
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Subject: 1ST - 10 Commandments on monument OK; dissent
ACLU NE Foundation v. City of Plattsmouth
<http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/05/08/022444P.pdf> Case No. 02-2444
District of Nebraska
Court's syllabus:
[PUBLISHED] [Bowman, Author, for the Court En Banc] Civil case -
Constitutional law. Like the Ten Commandments monument in Van Orden v.
Perry, 125 S.Ct. 2854 (2005), the Plattsmouth monument makes passive -
and permissible - use of the text of the Ten Commandments to
acknowledge the role of religion in our nation's heritage, and the
district court's judgment in favor of the ACLU is reversed. Judge Bye,
joined by J. Morris S. Arnold, dissenting.
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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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