10 Commandments To Stay In Ohio!

J.J. Jackson* | April 19, 2006

The ACLU lost a case in Ohio where they were seeking to remove a 10 Commandments monument from outside a courthouse. According to the report “Jeffrey Gamso, a legal director for the ACLU in Ohio, said the group had not decided whether to appeal.”

You can pretty much bet they will.

However, once again the judge gets it wrong. The reason, according to the article is that the monument “does not promote religion and can remain in place, a federal judge ruled.”

I cite again, the 1st Amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” The monument does neither. It neither “establishes” (i.e. makes mandatory by law) a religion nor does it prohibit anyone’s free exercise of religion.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the Constitution that prohibits government from promoting religion. They simply can’t force you to worship or worship in a particular way. Even the Constitution itself recognizes religion when it says “Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven” and promotes religion by recognizing that the President doesn’t work on Sundays “If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law”

DUH! But of course since they don’t teach the Constitution to people in this country any more what can you expect?

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UPDATE: Stop the ACLU also has a blurb on this

The Constitution in Exile : How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

(Book)

Authors:Andrew P. Napolitano
Manufacturer:Nelson Current
Released:18 April, 2006

Constitutional Chaos : What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws

(Book)

Authors:Andrew P. Napolitano
Manufacturer:Nelson Current
Released:11 November, 2004

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