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OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday morning that the Ten Commandments monument must be removed from the State Capitol grounds.
In a 7-2 decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the monument violated the Oklahoma Constitution and “shall be removed.”
Mike Reynolds, a former Oklahoma Representative who helped re-erect the monument, released a statement saying, "From the start, we expected this case would likely go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court."
Brady Henderson with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a statement saying, "Today's ruling is an important victory for all Oklahomans, regardless of their religion or beliefs. It reminds our state government that our religious choices are our own, and it is not the state's job to tell us which beliefs are right or wrong."
originally posted by: Kromlech
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Wonder why all of a sudden they decide to get all PC about the monument. Quite the trend now.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: Kromlech
Obviously further proof of the prosecution of the christians in this once great christian nation!
/sarc off.
For those that are against this ruling, would you be okay with any other religions monument on state capital grounds?
Just to keep things current, what would the outrage be if it was a muslim monument?
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: Kromlech
It isn't enforcing belief in anything. There are plenty of things that could be removed from American societies under such rules, like advertising, tv shows, statues.
Silly PC nonsense, it will bite them back. I have written plenty about my opinions on Christianity but it is the basis of American laws, and America is a Christian nation.
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: Kromlech
It isn't enforcing belief in anything. There are plenty of things that could be removed from American societies under such rules, like advertising, tv shows, statues.
Silly PC nonsense, it will bite them back. I have written plenty about my opinions on Christianity but it is the basis of American laws, and America is a Christian nation.
America is not a Christian nation, never has been. There is good info on that in an installment of NLBS.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit the right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. On the contrary, we are bound, you, I, and everyone, to make common cause, even with error itself, to maintain the common right of freedom of conscience. We ought with one heart and one hand hew down the daring and dangerous efforts of those who would seduce the public opinion to substitute itself into . . . tyranny over religious faith. -- Letter to Edward Dawse, 1803
originally posted by: Kromlech
The majority of the religious in this country are Christian, and according to statistics, most Americans identify as Christian. I don't see a mosque on practically every street corner in America, you see churches -- which speaks for itself.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: theabsolutetruth
The only nonsense here is saying that our founding fathers based this nation on christianity when that is just not true.
originally posted by: Kromlech
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: Kromlech
It isn't enforcing belief in anything. There are plenty of things that could be removed from American societies under such rules, like advertising, tv shows, statues.
Silly PC nonsense, it will bite them back. I have written plenty about my opinions on Christianity but it is the basis of American laws, and America is a Christian nation.
America is not a Christian nation, never has been. There is good info on that in an installment of NLBS.
The majority of the religious in this country are Christian, and according to statistics, most Americans identify as Christian. I don't see a mosque on practically every street corner in America, you see churches -- which speaks for itself.
"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
I have written plenty about my opinions on Christianity but it is the basis of American laws, and America is a Christian nation.