IN YOUR FACE JUDGES AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Isn’t it interesting that on June 26th the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Ruled that a Ten Commandment plaque that has hung in the foyer of a Pennsylvania courthouse has the court’s blessing to remain for the sake of historical preservation and is not an endorsement of religion. Judge Edward Becker stated, “We do not believe…that there can never be a secular purpose for posting
the Ten Commandments or that the Ten Commandments are so overwhelmingly religious in nature that they will always be seen only as an endorsement of religion.”

This appeals court overturned a lower court ruling stating that the plaque must be removed because it is inherently a religious statement.

Now on July 1, only a few days later, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that Judge Roy Moore’s 5,380 pound Ten Commandment Monument violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.

Tom Parker, a spokesman for the chief justice, said Moore would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court” – and “that this case is far from over.”

Those who belong to atheist organizations, like Freethought Society, the ACLU, and advocates for a strict separation of church and state, all applauded the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals. The fact that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Ten Commandments plaque in the Pennsylvania courtroom meant nothing to these atheist anti-Ten Commandment groups. They were more concerned with the big case that would ultimately end at the U.S. Supreme court.

“This is a slam dunk for our side,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. But does Barry Lynn and his atheist friends ever stop to realize that the country in which they live
is the greatest nation on earth because of the Ten Commandments and their place in civilization and their historic place in our law?

The reason the seal from Richmond County Georgia was allowed to remain was because, according to the unelected judge, the text of the Ten Commandments was not visible. Give me a break!

Do these “in your face” liberal judges, who should all be replaced, actually believe that the Ten Commandments, upon which all civilization and law is based – should now after thousands of years be removed by them as if they had some new revelation? This is a battle that will draw a line in the sand and determine future religious freedom.

“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a famine of food or thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord."
Amos 8: 11

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“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a famine of food or thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
Amos 8: 11