Jeffrey Davis, who resides in a neighboring county but owns property in Allegany County, filed the lawsuit to have the monument, located on the courthouse lawn, removed because “he is offended” by it, his complaint from March says.
“A Ten Commandments monument isn’t unconstitutional simply because someone says he is offended by it,” said ADF Senior Counsel Brett Harvey. “The Supreme Court clarified this issue when it upheld a virtually identical monument in Texas. The emotional response of an offended passerby doesn’t automatically amount to a violation of the Establishment Clause.”
In 1957, the Fraternal Order of Eagles donated the monument, which stands not far from a monument to George Washington. In its 2005 decision in Van Orden v. Perry, the high court upheld the constitutionality of a nearly identical monument, also donated by FOE, on the grounds of the Texas Capitol complex. The court ruled that the monument did not violate the Establishment Clause.
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4 comments:
And likewise with the Civil war statues and the Confederate flag on the Courthouse.
I'm so "offended", I can't possibly go on with my life! I would rather kill myself off than look at this in my life!
Let's compare this to the WW2 prisoners in Japan who were barely alive and 85 pounds and on the schedule to be killed before the Luzon Philippines prison camp was busted and rescued by my Dad.
Look it up, and cry on my shoulder, axxholes. You are garbage waiting for the trash truck in my eyes.
You offend me, so you need to be destroyed.
If something offends you, don't look at it!
I suggest jeffrey davis move. At least to look elsewhere.
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