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Judge rules Ten Commandments monument must go


I'm sorry, I didn't realize that personal opinions were not allowed on forums.
 

Outside of #2 was never a law in the United States.

I mean #2 means don't be an arrogant clownish aristocratic fool. However even #2 could be considered treason, considering those guilty of being treasonous in history have often carried those traits...... Now, obviously in the US it's not illegal to be an arrogant fool, however that arrogance will certainly lead you to break the state laws that are based off the Ten Commandments.
 

100% correct and I would love to give you a like on that but for some reason it won't let me..... But thumbs up.

You're right tho, progressives are only tolerant with their own ideas, anyone else with a different idea or contradicts their ideas is "intolerant" or "racist" or a "bigot.."

IMO, people should be individuals and form their own opinions instead of being trained or told to accept one idea or another.

People need to figure out their own philosophies and their own moral compass and hate or envy won't help anyone figure that out - it will just lead to more conflict.

I don't mean to sound philosophical but.......
 
Nice debate guys, however I'm running behind in my day/evening and I have plans so -- "I'll be back" later this weekend to pick this up again because it is interesting.

Have good weekends yall... :2wave:
 
faithful_servant said:
My given name is "Franklin". A franklin was someone who served their lord out of love for them, not out of obligation. As such, the term translates to "faithful servant" pretty well.
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So... delusional. Got it. :roll:
 

It was nothing of the sort, mankind has been around a lot longer than some idiot camel jockeys in the middle of the desert scribbling down religious drivel a couple of thousand years ago. Maybe you ought to get your nose out of that idiotic Bible and learn some real history. You know, like the Treaty of Tripoli, written by George Washington, in which it is written: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
 
WCH said:
I agree. It was funded by private sources.
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And still put on public land. It doesn't matter who pays for it, it matters where it sits. Anyone who wants to put the Ten Commandments in their own front yard, on their own property, is welcome to do so. They do not have a right to put it on public land that belongs to all of us.

Try again.
 
wolfsgirl said:
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that personal opinions were not allowed on forums.
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No apology is needed, and of course personal opinions are allowed here. But this thread began by talking about a court decision, not about what policy on placing religious monuments in public places should be followed. And whether someone may put up one of these monuments in a public place is a constitutional issue.
 

That may be what you think the law on this subject should be, but it's not what it now is. Justice Breyer stated it pretty well in his concurrence in a 2005 Texas case, Van Orden v. Perry.
 
Top Cat said:
Anything denoting religion on public property should not be allowed.

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Fortunately, your personal opinion is irrelevant.

Tell me, how does posting a copy of the Ten Commandments make laws that respects or establishes one religion over the other ?

And if a Judge ruled that they be removed then his ruling can be appealed.

It WILL be appealed.
 

I think Sharia Law should be placed on courtrooms because they're just as applicable.
 
Unrepresented said:
I think Sharia Law should be placed on courtrooms because they're just as applicable.
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" Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."

Does posting the Ten commandments on a Public building do that ?

And also, what does Sharia Law have to do with our Judeo Christian founding ?
 
Can you see how you contradict yourself in as little as two sentences?
 
As far as I'm concerned this should be a local government issue. Whatever the city council decides can be there, whether Christian, Jewish, Satanist, atheist or whatever.eace
 
spud_meister said:
It's just words, what's the big deal?
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It's words the government endorses. I don't think those words should be cheapened by letting any majority throw its ideology around.
 

Mankind was around for a 10s of 1000s of years before the ten commandments, which means it cannot be anything akin to foundational. Furthermore the bible simply related stories similar to ones that are centuries older than the bible, again meaning that the xian 10 commandments are not foundational to mankind.
 

Is there a particular Commandment with which you disagree?
 
apdst said:
To the Left, the government has to be the religion everyone has faith in.
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We on the left have so many religions. Atheism is our religion, statism is our religion, government is our religion, science is our religion. It get so confusing what to pray to after a while.
 
AlabamaPaul said:
Is there a particular Commandment with which you disagree?
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We belie all of them, so I'm figuring they are all pretty useless. Dittohead not! posted this analysis...


But I'd go so far as to say that even the three he thinks are part of our society are not, and are instead conditionally accepted in our modern society, so really none of them apply, and it's an entirely useless list.
 
Unrepresented said:
Can you see how you contradict yourself in as little as two sentences?
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No, not really.

Because first, posting the Ten Commandments in a public building doesn't " make laws respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof " and second, our Country has a History believe it or not.

If you want to ignore that because it threatens you somehow thats on you.
 

But you didn't state the ones with which YOU disagree...
 
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