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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160781,00.html

Supreme Court Bars Commandments From Courthouses
Monday, June 27, 2005
By Jane RohWASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down Ten Commandments displays in two Kentucky courthouses, but said a 6-foot granite replica on government land in Texas was acceptable.

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By the way - what do they plan to do with the courthouses in America that have the Ten Commandments sculptured on the building, walls...

[coldwarvet]

Perhaps they will cover them up with portraits of communist leaders like Bill Clinton.
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Two convoluted decisions. OK on Gummint propitty, but not in the buildings. I think they were looking over their shoulders at the inscriptions on the SCOTUS Bldg. and waffled. We need to proceed with appointing Originalists and get the Clintinoids off the bench.


Classic dissent by Scalia on the Kentucky case:

Another Classic Scalia Dissent
[Edward Whelan 06/27 11:39 AM]

In the Kentucky 10 Commandments case, Justice Scalia wrote a dissent joined in whole by Rehnquist and Thomas and in part by Kennedy. Scalia read from the bench a summary of Part I of his dissent (the part that Kennedy did not join). Be sure to read it. Here are the key points:

1. The history of this country demonstrates that the majority’s proposition that the government cannot favor religion over irreligion is plainly false.

2. “What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle.” The majority flunks that test.

3. “If religion in the public forum had to be entirely nondenominational, there could be no religion in the public forum at all.” “Historical practices . . . demonstrate that there is a distance between the acknkowledgment of a single Creator and the establishment of a religion.”
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