cwnewz.com - The display of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky County Courthouse is still a "problem" but it is being defended by Judge Roy Moore and Foundation for Moral Law.
Roy Moore (Former Alabama Chief Justice) and the Foundation for Moral Law (a religious-liberties legal organization in Montgomery, Alabama) filed a legal brief defending the constitutionality of a display of the Ten Commandments and other documents in a Kentucky courthouse. The Foundation's brief in ACLU of Kentucky v. McCreary County, Kentucky is stated below:
Judge Moore stated,
"The people of the State of Kentucky have the right and the duty to acknowledge God as the source of governmental authority and human rights, and no federal court has any authority to interfere with that right and duty."
A copy of the Ten Commandments was placed in Mc.Creary County and Pulaski County's courthouses in 1999. The ACLU of Kentucky filed suit, and afterwards the counties altered their displays by including passages from various documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Kentucky Constitution, President Lincoln's 1863 proclamation of a National Day of Prayer and Humiliation, and President Reagan's proclamation of 1983 as the Year of the Bible. But the federal courts still held the displays to be unconstitutional and ordered their removal.
The counties then later posted new displays which consist of nine documents of equal size, including the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner, the Mayflower Compact, the National Motto, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, and a picture of Lady Justice. The federal district court, however, ruled that the impermissible religious purpose of the earlier displays "tainted" the present displays, and therefore the present displays are unconstitutional as well. The counties have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Judge Moore and the Foundation argue in their brief to the appeals court that this nation was founded upon an acknowledgment of God, as evidenced by the colonial charters, the Thanksgiving proclamations of Presidents Washington and Lincoln, and a host of other documents. The First Amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," but a display on a courthouse wall is not a "law," and an acknowledgment of God is not an "establishment of religion." The Foundation argues that an acknowledgment of God--including the Ten Commandments--may stand alone without being surrounded by any other historical displays.
Christian Web News - Jesus has a way of getting right to the point, doesn't He? There was certainly no mincing of words, He came right out and said, "why are you fearful?" and then went on to say, "O you of little faith." You don't have to read between the lines to see what He was saying, they had little faith.
Christian Web News - Galatians 3:13-14. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree''), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
