Should the 10 Commandments be allowed to hang above the electric chair?

[tryreading]

Oh really?

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/in...&news_id=46664
Hedy Weinberg, executive director of ACLU-Tennessee, sent a letter to Gov. Phil Bredesen Dec. 12 suggesting the annual menorah display and candle-lighting ceremony would violate the separation of church and state unless it occurred in a public forum where other displays could take place. The menorah has been displayed at the state Capitol since 2003, at the request of the Center for Jewish Awareness.


http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/87/
Two public-sponsored holiday displays in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. The first display involved a Christian nativity scene inside the Allegheny County Courthouse. The second display was a large Chanukah menorah, erected each year by the Chabad Jewish organization, outside the City-County building. The ACLU claimed the displays constituted state endorsement of religion. This case was decided together with Chabad v. ACLU and City of Pittsburgh v. ACLU of Greater Pittsburgh.

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/ren...12-28/news.asp
During the school's annual window-decorating event, one student hand-painted the decorative candleholder that signifies the annual Jewish holiday. But the symbol was removed after a faculty adviser suggested that the students stay away from religious themes.

Thanks for showing examples of the ACLU's consistent efforts.

But you've been under a rock if you think the Jewish are attempting to make the U.S. a Jewish nation. They are not a Constitutional threat. The Christians constantly attempt to force and sneak (manger scenes, prayer in school, I.D., and the evolution disclaimer) their symbols and dogma into our public venues, and you know this.

Let me know when Karl Rove privately consults with the Rabbis to help have a Supreme Court Justice installed. Tell me when the Jewish versions of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell start running 24 hour religious programs designed to roust their people to join the struggle to bring Temple services into the classrooms. Call me if Joe Lieberman starts spouting that his religion is the one true path, and everybody without it will rot in Hell. Please alert me when these things occur, and then I will join you in saying "Jewish people of this country, we respect your faith but won't have it endorsed by our government."

I agree with the ACLU that the practices you mention should be stopped, but this anecdotal evidence does not indicate a serious mission by Jews to take the country back.

 

[Tashah]

Instead of interjecting religion into the execution process, perhaps a photograph of the victim(s) in the execution chamber would be more meaningful and appropriate.

 

[robin]

I'm not sure about the 'Thou shall not kill' !
Better make it nine.
Oh the irony !

 

[tryreading]

Instead of interjecting religion into the execution process, perhaps a photograph of the victim(s) in the execution chamber would be more meaningful and appropriate.

Good idea.

 

[26 X World Champs]

Instead of interjecting religion into the execution process, perhaps a photograph of the victim(s) in the execution chamber would be more meaningful and appropriate.

Or perhaps the complete elimination of capital punishment would be the true "religious" inspired answer? The eye for an eye mentality is so uncivilized.

The fact that the death penalty doesn't deter crime is reason enough to eliminate it as the raisin d'etre is supposed to be to stop crimes.

I then read extreme posts like the one PTSDKID wrote suggesting that we do public executions on TV and I realize how far we still have to go before our society can be deemed civilized.

Bottom line is eliminate the death penalty and we don't have to worry about government overstepping it's boundaries trying to impose religion into the public square.

I must admit that I enjoy reading posts from people who ardently support killing others for their crimes, people who take satisfaction in getting revenge.

Being a Jew I would like to know what the mainstream Christian philosophy is regarding revenge? I'm also not talking about revenge in a war sense, I'm talking on a micro level, person to person.