{"id":4944,"date":"2011-10-03T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2011-10-03T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:05:48","slug":"it-is-still-not-ok-to-display-the-ten-commandments-in-a-court-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/it-is-still-not-ok-to-display-the-ten-commandments-in-a-court-room\/","title":{"rendered":"It is still not OK to display the ten commandments in a court room"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CSM<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
How the Ten Commandments came to be. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case examining whether an Ohio judge violated the separation of church and state when he displayed a poster in his courtroom that contrasted The Ten Commandments<\/a>\"\" with humanist precepts.<\/p>\n

By declining the case, the court let stand rulings that found that the judge had indeed violated the church-state principle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This follows from the case of Judge DeWeese, who made numerous claims about how judicial law and churchy law are the same thing, and how the founding fathers would want it this way, and so on and so forth. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio saw it differently, filed suit, and won. <\/p>\n

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In a decision handed down in February, the Sixth Circuit noted that that Judge DeWeese had been ordered in 2000 to remove a poster of the Ten Commandments from his courtroom wall. That display was also ruled a violation of the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n

To survive this second challenge, the judge would have to have demonstrated that the new poster had a secular purpose \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intended to teach or promote a religious message.<\/p>\n

The appeals court said in light of DeWeese\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earlier poster \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the history of [the judge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s] actions demonstrates that any purported secular purpose is a sham.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anwyay, just so you know, here is a list of
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The Ten Commandments (all 16 of them)<\/H3><\/p>\n
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  1. \n

    I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:<\/li>\n

  10. \n

    For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.<\/li>\n

  11. \n

    Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.<\/li>\n

  12. \n

    Thou shalt not kill<\/li>\n

  13. \n

    Thou shalt not commit adultery.<\/li>\n

  14. \n

    Thou shalt not steal.<\/li>\n

  15. \n

    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.<\/li>\n

  16. \n

    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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