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To: Timothy Paul
Will someone please notify God that the ten commandments have no legal standing.
2 posted on 08/24/2003 10:17:09 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: exnavy
Will someone please notify God that the ten commandments have no legal standing.

I'm happy to notify YOU that most of the 10 Commandments not only have no legal standing here, but OUGHT NOT have legal standing in any civilized country.

Check out the first four:

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. 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: 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; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. 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.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 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: 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.

These might apply where the Taliban rules, but they have no business being enforced in this land of the free.

13 posted on 08/24/2003 11:24:46 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: exnavy
This is not a debate over the 10 Commandments, it is a debate over Federalsim and the Constitution. When the 1st Ammendment states that "Congress shall make no laws" it is clearly stating that this is NOT an issue over which the Federal Government has any authority. Further, the Constitution, in the 10th Ammendment, clearly reserves the the authority to the states and the people respectively.
55 posted on 08/24/2003 2:01:19 PM PDT by Natural Law
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