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John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:04:42 -0600
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The part about the 10 commandments in the Supreme Court building I find
very interesting.  So what happens when Judge Roy appeals his dismissal
from the bench and it gets to the Supreme Court?

John Lee

At 11:49 AM 12/3/03 -0600, Jerry Fochtman wrote:
>
>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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