The Supreme Court Ruling Yesterday on the Ten Commandments
| June 28th, 2005This post was removed by request of the author.
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June 28th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Could have been far worse. I’ve heard it argued that the grounds outside a courthouse should be sort of a public forum, allowing any display the community or parts of it wish to put there. Inside, however, is the government’s forum, which belongs to no religion.
The different rulings should silence all but the loudest of the conservative “Christian Nation” crowd, while preserving the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
It also makes for a good newspaper headline: the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s was “Court Issues a Firm ‘Maybe.’”
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June 30th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Someone here in Kansas asked me the other day, “Why are you atheists so upset at the whole 10 Commandments thing? This is One Nation Under God. Why does it matter if people of faith express their faith in public?”
I answered that it had been “one nation indivisible” only fifty years ago, when people didn’t see a problem with changing our national motto and pledge… and now we’re supposedly “one nation under God.” So in fifty years, I don’t want my atheist grandkids explaining to someone else why they have a problem with people being prosecuted for Idolatry and Blasphemy, since the laws now enforced in the courthouse are ‘obviously’ based on the Ten Commandments displayed in front of it.
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