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07-01-2003, 03:58 PM
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Judge Moron -- uh, Moore -- loses again
The Ten Commandments aren't just the "moral foundations of Law"; they're "invited error with a parking space".
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07-01-2003, 04:34 PM
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Wonder how much time he has to toss it?
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07-01-2003, 07:57 PM
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Moron is right. They ought to toss him along with his statue. 
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07-01-2003, 07:59 PM
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Theo,
What are your personal views on the ten commandments? Not with respect to public policy, but with your life?
-RADAR
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07-01-2003, 08:07 PM
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i agree that this doesn't have any place in a judicial building. afterall... not every commandment is illegal...and not every law is a commandment. this creates the illusion of a duality in law that shouldn't exist. IMO direct interpretation of religion has no place in law.
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07-01-2003, 08:28 PM
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Well said originel.....
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07-01-2003, 09:04 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by originel
i agree that this doesn't have any place in a judicial building. afterall... not every commandment is illegal...and not every law is a commandment. this creates the illusion of a duality in law that shouldn't exist. IMO direct interpretation of religion has no place in law. | Agreed, well said! 
But still.... and I'm prolly opening a can of worms, here... if only people could be mindful of these Commandments....as well as the damage caused by the violation of the so-called "Seven Deadly Sins", this world would be a better place, IMO. 
I think the guy was just trying, in his own way, (and with a flagrant abuse of his own power,) to create that very effect.
You know, just reminding people, eh?
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07-02-2003, 09:52 AM
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| RADAR1797, I don't have any trouble with the last six as personal behavior, and I don't have any trouble with numbers 6, 8 and 9 as laws. (By the way: I'm using the Hebrew Bible's numbering, not the Catholic or Protestant ones, so that's murder, theft and perjury I'm talking about.)
Numbers 1 through 4, though, I'm against. First, because I'm an atheist, so I'm opposed on a personal level. And on a legal level, they are so clearly of a sectarian religious nature that they have no place in American law. They specify a particular god, and they proscribe other forms of worship. (Many non-Abrahamic religions are polytheistic, revere idols, and do not keep the Sabbath.)
And I think that if number 5 was punished as the Bible says it should be, few of us would now be alive.
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