Posted on 02/22/2005 8:10:01 PM PST by Liberty Wins
In the latest judicial attack on the Ten Commandments, a federal judge ordered a monument containing the Commandments removed from the lawn of the Gibson County courthouse in Indiana. The monument was placed there by the local Elks lodge in 1956 as a part of a national campaign to check the rising number of delinquent youth. While being carted off to jail for abetting public indecency, a strip club owner said the display caused him "irreparable harm," so he decided to enlist the aid of the ACLU to have the monument removed. Long story short, on January 31 Southern District Judge Richard Young ruled in favor of the strip club owner and said the Commandments had to go. The judge gave the county 60 days to have them removed.
Last week Congressman John Hostettler (R-IN), who represents the area, asked President Bush to exercise his executive prerogative and instruct the U.S. Marshall not to remove the commandments as ordered by the court. The point that Congressman Hostettler (R-IN) is raising is long overdue; it is time someone with the proper authority stood up to the runaway judiciary, which does not have the exclusive authority to enforce its own rulings. The continual stream of judicial decisions from activist judges, beginning in 1947 with Justice Hugo Black when he created the "wall of separation," have steadily eroded the rich spiritual soil of our nation, leaving a cavernous divide in our body politic. Enough is enough! We echo Congressman Hostettler's request - for the sake of the nation.
Here's an idea whose time has come. Ignore the federal judge.
That's a dangerous precedent, ignoring the judge. Better to have him removed for cause, that way the respect for law survives his asinine rulings.
Hm. How'd that work out for 'em?
SW
I have often wondered why your suggestion isn't done more often. By what authority does this Judge have a right to impose his singular will on the people?
Respect for the law is on life support.
Lord, forgive them!
That's it! The ACLU has gone FAR ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's time for conservatives to fight back.
No politician today has the rocks to say no to the men in black. Either that, or you can bet they are on their side. Flame away, sometimes truth hurts.
Whatever happened to established societal customs. We've got these monuments all over God's half acre and they've been there forever. But try to change something they've only concocted since the Beatles came over and they'll cite precedent. I know there' some legal theory for that idea.
I can't post any of my true reactions.
Please, sense my bitter anger.
The precedent has already been set, by Andrew Jackson. John Marshall had no army, no deputies, no policemen. Neither does this judge. Let's encourage President Bush to do the same as Andy Jackson.
president@whitehouse.gov
John Hostetler is a good Congressman and an alumni of my school. I regret that through redistricting he is no longer my Congressman.
Does anyone know if someone in the town has contacted Alliance Defense Fund yet to fight the ACLU?
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/actions/Default.aspx?mid=410
If you set that precedent, what's to stop the federal judge's kidnapping warrant from being obeyed? It's a precedent you don't want to set.
Well, given that the last delinquent youth was sighted in May of 1957, I'd say it's going fine, just fine...
Not as dangerous precendent to allow judges to keep writing the laws.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
When judges assume tyrannical powers, it seems to me you can ignore them or eradicate them. Tyrants don't just fade away.
We can fight back. We can rise up against the ACLU.
Hostettler is probably my favorite rep.
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