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DLW
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  		   Posted 8/22/2003 1:14 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Alabama chief justice suspended pending outcome of ethics complaint for defying court order to move Ten Commandments.
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ReasonableDoubt
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DLW, you'll like this - from yahoo.news : Cool

"On Friday, about 100 protesters moved from the steps of the judicial building to a sidewalk in front of the federal courthouse, where Thompson works. Some ripped to pieces and burned a copy of Thompson's ruling. Demonstrators also held a mock trial, in which Thompson was charged with breaking the law of God.


"We hold you, Judge Thompson, and the United States Supreme Court in contempt of God's law," said Flip Benham, director of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. "


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DLW
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  		   Posted 8/22/2003 1:36 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If only this passion and energy could be directed otherwise...

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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ReasonableDoubt
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DLW- I SO agree with you on this one. I feel as though the Judge and his following are playing the martyr where no persecution exists. The appeals court said the monument could stay in the building if it was moved to a private area. So what is the big deal? Is this what Jesus would do? This seems to be much ado about nothing.
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DLW
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  		   Posted 8/23/2003 6:30 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It reminds me of a time when my extended family was gathered and someone brought up the fact that Dr. Pepper had had a version of the pledge of allegiance on it without "under God". Before a rant-fest could get started, I pointed out that it was a soda-drink and had never been "under God"....

One thing you learn in Grad School is to pick your battles very carefully...

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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