alt.education

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:24:13 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
wrote:

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>"4012 Dead" wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:15:29 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
>> wrote:
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>>>> If you (as it used to be) sat in a courtroom where a
>>>> picture of the 10 Commandments hung above a judges
>>>> head---that's a major influence.
>>>>
>>>
>>>You are arguing that the influence vanishies when the display is taken
>>>down,
>>>I'm arguing that the influence remains but is under a rug. I prefer to
>>>know
>>>what I am facing because I can then make an argument that the influence
>>>has
>>>adversely affected me. You pretend that the influence you can not see does
>>>not exist.
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>> No, he's arguing that government involvement in the influence ends.
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>Ending and ceasing to exist are the same thing.
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>The 10 C's are displayed on one court, but not another.

Not any more they aren't.

> The involvement is
>still there, and the court that has them on display is the very court that
>says the other my not display them. Law comes to us from many religious
>sources, yet only one is under constant attack in the USA. The very notion
>that man's ability to reason is derived from a higher power is the basis of
>our legal system.
>
Oh, let me guess: you are trying to pretend the port-tableau over the
SC that has lawgivers throughout history (and includes Hammaramudi and
Mohammed) which has Moses holding tables is somehow a "display of the
ten commandments."

Here's a little quiz for you: how many of the commandments are encoded
in US law, or would even be found constitutional if they were?
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