A federal judge says Dixie County officials must remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the front of their courthouse.
Senior District Judge Maurice Paul gave the north Florida county until mid-August to remove the monument in Cross City.
The decision Friday resulted from a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida in 2007. The group argued that an official government display of a religious monument violates a clause in the First Amendment that prohibits government from promoting religious messages. The county argued that it didn't own the monument that was controlled by a private citizen.
Cross City is located in the Big Bend region of the state, about an hour west of Gainesville.
8 comments:
Throw the judge out. "Congress shall make no law..."
Congress is making no law there that I know of.
But the government can spend taxpayer dollars to rebuid mosques in other countries
If there is one thing that I wish I could do, it would be to permanently eradicate the ACLU!
Why should we recognize Judaism if not Christianity?
I say throw out the Jewish religious symbols - since you've thrown out the Christian symbols
Doesn't our own national anthem promote a religious message? Will that be the next go to. How about our money? This is our HISTORY they are trying to change.
WELCOME TO THE NEW THIRD WORLD ...AKA The old AMERICA now a tghird world country...better pick up and study the KORAN as we are getting closer to it day by day
6:40 where in our national anthem is anything religious mentioned?
6:40 where in our national anthem is anything religious mentioned?
July 19, 2011 2:34 AM
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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