No Other God:
Christians, Commandments, and the Court
Religion — By Joe Carter on June 28, 2005 at 1:06 am In two important church-state rulings announced yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld a Ten Commandments display in Texas, but struck down one in Kentucky. The court ruled that an outdoor public presentation of the Decalogue among other monuments on the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin did not amount to an unconstitutional government promotion of religion. The majority justices said that while the Texas display was an acknowledgment of a sacred religious text by the government, the public exhibit did not cross the line into impermissible proselytizing.
But the high court reached a different conclusion in a Kentucky case involving displays on the walls of two county courthouses. The justices ruled 5 to 4 that public officials were not motivated by a necessary secular purpose in ordering the courthouse display and that the government officials in the case had acted in a way that sought to advance religion in violation of the separation of church and state.
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I meant Barry Land… and being an ordained minister means nothing these days. Look at Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Land. Jesse and Al support abortion rights, homosexual marriage and government sponsored racism (a.k.a.- Affirmative Action). Land has been hostile to every public display/afirmation of religion (ESPECIALLY Christianity) in the last 5 to 10 years. His hero, Madeline Murray O’Hare would be extremely proud. Check out the UCC.org site, their Mission Statement says that “from the beginning of our history, we were a church that affirmed the ideal that Christians did not always have to agree to live together in communion,” speaks to what Land is doing, ie trying to destroy unity of the body of Christ.
I wasn’t ONLY referring to Spain…Massachussetts and Canada qualify as well. You speak of “Democracy” as if any place had a true democracy. The majority of the people of the U.S. think abortion is wrong, but in a REPRESENTATIVE democracy they cannot get laws passed to outlaw it. The majority of Spaniards and Canadians do not agree with homo marriage, but their elected representatives want to appease the minority.
Boonton, a quick look at your blog and one can see that you do not understand logic as the rest of us do. You suffer with the same astigmatism/myopia as your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton (both) and Durbin. All psuedo-Intellectals and self-professing Christians with no real signs of knowledge of Christianity through their actions.
For some reason, this blog appeals to your and your ilk.?.?.?