Court slaps down ACLU

[JoeEpcotRocks]

Court slaps down ACLU "separation of church and state" nonsense.

Excellent article.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS01/512210407

From the article:
Judge Richard Suhrheinrich's ruling said the ACLU brought "tiresome" arguments about the "wall of separation" between church and state, and it said the organization does not represent a "reasonable person."

Amen!

 

[CathrynRose]

Court slaps down ACLU "separation of church and state" nonsense.

Excellent article.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS01/512210407

From the article:
Judge Richard Suhrheinrich's ruling said the ACLU brought "tiresome" arguments about the "wall of separation" between church and state, and it said the organization does not represent a "reasonable person."

Amen!

"Bout time!!!

 

[lyeag]

Now that is something to smile about!

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Interesting ruling. It will be even more interesting to see if it stands up on appeal. Given the way federal courts assume power not granted to them in the Constitution, I would bet this decision will eventually be overturned.

 

[marybet]

Maybe one of you could expalin to me the need to post the Ten Commandments in a public place. In most towns there is a church on every corner, and they probably don't have it on display in all the churches. You have every right to put one on your wall at home, teach it to your children, get down on your knees and pray in front of it if you want to. Why does it have to be on the courthouse wall? I live in Alabama and people have it posted in their front yards. Just makes me shake my head and wonder why, don't understand the bumper stickers that say "I believe in Jesus", if you really do, he knows it and probably doesn't read bumper stickers.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I don't believe there is a "need" to post the 10 Commandments in a public place. Personally, I don't support monuments, plaques, displays, etc. of the 10 Commandments in public buildings, especially courts. However, I do believe that this is an issue that should be addressed & decided by each individual state, not by the federal gov't. or federal judiciary. If the KY Supreme Court says it's ok, that's fine with me. Each state should be able to decide this on its own.

 

[va32h]

Oh yes, thank goodness they can post the Ten Commandments in the courthouse. Why, I'll bet that when criminals see those Commandments they are going to immediately repent and turn their backs on their lives of crime. All this time they were stealing and raping and killing, they just must not have realized that was morally wrong, in addition to being against the law. This will change everything!


Give me a break. I am a Christian, and my faith is not so tenuous that I have to see the Commandments every few feet in order to live by them.

 

[buckylarue]

Seems to me like one of those "activist judges" trying to make laws, rather than interpret them...I thought you people were against that?

 

[Chuck S]

Given the way federal courts assume power not granted to them in the Constitution, ......

Ummm, the federal courts are designed to interpret the Constitution and make ruling based upon that, are they not? Tell me how courts have "assumed power"...they can't rule unless a case is brought before them, can they? And when a case is brought before them, it is then their responsibility, under the Constitutuin, to rule based upon their understanding of Constitutional Law, isn't it?

Darn activists...doing what they are suppossed to do under law.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Seems to me like one of those "activist judges" trying to make laws, rather than interpret them...I thought you people were against that?

Why is it that the argument about "activist judges" is always brought up when someone disagrees with a particular decision?

That said, I guess you missed this paragraph in the article (emphasis mine)

The decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Cincinnati. It upheld a lower-court decision that allowed Mercer County to continue displaying the Ten Commandments along with the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" and other documents.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Ummm, the federal courts are designed to interpret the Constitution and make ruling based upon that, are they not? Tell me how courts have "assumed power"...they can't rule unless a case is brought before them, can they? And when a case is brought before them, it is then their responsibility, under the Constitutuin, to rule based upon their understanding of Constitutional Law, isn't it?

Darn activists...doing what they are suppossed to do under law.

Just expressing an opinion. I don't believe that the Constitution grants the federal government the right to overrule the states; the federal gov't. and especially the federal judiciary was founded to be severely restricted in its powers with most of the power to govern being reserved to individual states. The fact that this ideal was undermined by that so-called secular saint President Lincoln and subsequently relinquished by the states after the (un)Civil War doesn't erase what the founding fathers intended.

 

[cardaway]

Seems to me like one of those "activist judges" trying to make laws, rather than interpret them...I thought you people were against that?

 

[yeartolate]

"separation of church and state" nonsense.

Words that are music to the ears of the Taliban..................

 

[bicker]

Seems to me like one of those "activist judges" trying to make laws, rather than interpret them...I thought you people were against that?

I think I read a message earlier today in another thread that said something along the lines of, "Where their religion is concerned, the laws don't matter..."

I cannot help but think of that when reading this.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

"[It is] working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and adancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the states, and the government of all be consolidated into one." Thomas Jefferson, writing about his fears of the federal government, particularly a federal judiciary, taking over the right to govern from the individual states.

 

[HOGFAN]

do not alot of societys laws come directly from the ten commandments? are they not what keeps society from delving into chaos?

 

[Tigger_Magic]

do not alot of societys laws come directly from the ten commandments? are they not what keeps society from delving into chaos?

The same could be said of the code of Hammurabi, but we don't see that being displayed in public buildings or courts.

 

[JimVL]

Seems to me like one of those "activist judges" trying to make laws, rather than interpret them...I thought you people were against that?

You people? What people; DIS board posters?

 

[Judge Smails]

Court slaps down ACLU "separation of church and state" nonsense.

Excellent article.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS01/512210407

From the article:
Judge Richard Suhrheinrich's ruling said the ACLU brought "tiresome" arguments about the "wall of separation" between church and state, and it said the organization does not represent a "reasonable person."

Amen!

I wonder what JER's reaction would be if a group of Mulah's decided to have a granite Koran set up next to the 10 Commandments? Perhaps at Christmas along side the nativity scene at the County Courthouse, we could also include a 30' tall jade Buddah. I personally would like to see a 40' tall concrete Christ hanging from the cross next to a full scale replica of Hecubus for those that believe in Devil worship. I think that might look swell on the White House lawn.

 

[Florida_Mom]

do not alot of societys laws come directly from the ten commandments? are they not what keeps society from delving into chaos?

Actually, the Magna Carta. And natural law as espoused by the philosphers during the enlightenment such as John Locke.