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>>> Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]> 12/03/03 09:49AM >>>
At 11:11 AM 12/3/2003 -0600, joe andress wrote:
>Do you know why the Ten Commandments display was removed from the Alabama
>Supreme Court building.
>
>You can't post Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery and
>Thou Shall Not Lie in a building full of lawyers and Politicians without
>creating a hostile work environment.

On this off-topic topic....I received this awhile back...but haven't
verified it...but:

Did you know...

As you walk up the steps to the Building which houses the Supreme Court
you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers
and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full
frontal view-it is Moses and the Ten Commandments!

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the
Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall right above where
the Supreme Court judges sit a display of the Ten Commandments!

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and
Monuments in Washington, D.C.

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our
Constitution" made the following statement "We have staked the whole of
all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God."

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It
cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was
founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the
Gospel of Jesus Christ".

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose
salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the
established orthodox churches in the colonies.

Thomas Jefferson worried about that the Courts would overstep their
authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law, an
oligarchy, the rule of few over many.

The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should
select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 200
years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional

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