Three Things to Ponder On: 1. Cows 2. The Constitution 3. The Ten Commandments Cows: Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a single cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to, their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow. The Constitution: Why do they keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq? Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore. The Ten Commandments: The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse has nothing to do with seperation of church and state, (obviously a discarded principle anyway)is this: You cannot post any moral code that mandates; "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians.... It creates a hostile work environment. R.N.I.P. U.S.A. 1776-2000 sine cera
Actually it's taken over 200 years and a civil war, just to amend the constitution to the way it is now. Also, to say, "We're not using it anymore" is false. Anything in civil court is based on the constitution. Anything the supreme court rules, is based on the constitution. The Constitution will never die.
Maybe that's your problem though. The Constitution was intended to be near infallable. Rather than amending it constantly, I'm wondering if you should redraft it completely. Possibly not now, on account of who'd be doing it, but in the forseeable future.
The patriot act at work, we can now invade the privacy of all citizens and livestock but people we have in this country visiting or illegal can get ID's that will say "Identity not verified" but are allowed to drive around in cars ect with this. Yup that patriot act was made to keep us safe all right or could it have all been a plot to take away our civil liberties outlined in the Bill of rights?? The Constitution as it was originally wrote up would have functioned quite well but over time the goverment felt the need to amend it to slowly change the country for the big companies and the rich, instead of "We the People". If you look at different texts that contain the words from the Constitution you will see over the decades certian words that were capitalized were changed and punctuations ect were changed. Sadly they decide they need to decide the meaning when it was perfectly clear before. Sounds like a bible thumper, seems all passages of the bible lead to send more money! Well originally it was due to the Catholic Church, it had such control in the English goverment and it would repress all others, thus the reason they came over here. Now lets face facts, most know lawyers go into politics and thus the reason for the liars, thieves, ect. Kill all lawyers and we loose the goverment, lol
Arf arf arf hee hee hee ! Yank n Burn knows nothing of British Politics at all and infact people should disregard the entire context of his posts. Though Its what I have come to love here at hipforums. people who feel they can comment on just about everything but know absolutely nothing. Infact since the time of Henry The 8th which was way before any British went to the Americas. The Catholic church was ousted from Britain and by the time Britain did go to the Americas nearly all of the catholic clergy had been put to death. The fact of the matter is, Yank n Burn that the very obvious and simple reason the 10 commandments cannot be posted in a court of law is that they are not laws they are commandments from a being the state fails to recognise as the supreme authority on judicial matters since God does not make himself/herself/itself available for consultation in matters of grey area such as whether an action falls foul of the law or not.
True It would make sense. It's probably the corporations that resist the ten commandments more than civilians, lawyers, judges or religions. Who impinges more on them?
Yes, the British gov't adopted Protestantism long before the Revolution. And to the OP, I totally agree with you. Peace and love
Why insist on the 10 commandments being posted if your community and society live by them already. Or do you want them posted only to validate your religious beliefs.
