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Title: # POUND MORE SAND # - OK governor defies Supreme Court — Ten Commandments will stay at capitol
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URL Source: http://www.theamericanmirror.com/sh ... monument-to-remain-at-capitol/
Published: Jul 8, 2015
Author: Olaf Ekberg
Post Date: 2015-07-08 12:19:05 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: supreme court, first amendment, state rights, pound sand
Views: 238
Comments: 11
There’s a showdown at the OK capitol. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has vowed that a Ten Commandments monument on capitol grounds, which the state Supreme Court recently ruled was unconstitutional, will remain through appeal, KOCO reports. “The Ten Commandments monument was built to recognize and honor the historical significance of the Commandments in our state’s and nation’s systems of laws,” Fallin says in a statement. “The monument was built and maintained with private dollars. It is virtually identical to a monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol which the United States Supreme Court ruled to be permissible. It is a privately funded tribute to historical events, not a taxpayer funded endorsement of any religion, as some have alleged.” Fallin and Attorney General Scott Pruitt are appealing the Supreme Court’s ruling. “Oklahoma is a state where we respect the rule of law, and we will not ignore the state courts or their decisions. However, we are also a state with three co-equal branches of government. At this time, Attorney General Scott Pruitt, with my support, has filed a petition requesting a rehearing of the Ten Commandments case,” according to the governor. “Additionally, our Legislature has signaled its support for pursuing changes to our state Constitution that will make it clear the Ten Commandments monument is legally permissible. If legislative efforts are successful, the people of Oklahoma will get to vote on the issue.” In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the ACLU and its three plaintiffs. The group immediately denounced Fallin’s decision. “The Supreme Court did not give any leeway in their opinion. The bipartisan, seven-member majority did not say remove the monument except if you look into your crystal ball and think the law might allow it at some point in the future and go ahead and keep it,” ACLU of Oklahoma executive director Ryan Kiesel tells the Tulsa World. “The court said remove the monument.” Kiesel believes Fallin is in “contempt” of the court’s ruling. “Frankly, I would be astonished if we get to a point where the governor outright defies an order of our state’s highest court,” he says. “That said, if she does, there is a word for it. It is called contempt.” 
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#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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Atheism and Agnosticism are both faith-based religious belief systems. The Atheists' faith is that there is no God/Creator and the Agnostics' faith is unsure whether there is or isn't a God/Creator. America needs to stop indulging those faith-based religious belief systems with pretentious "dominion" over all others here. They are the ones violating the equal standing and co-sharing precepts of our 1st Amendment rights. Were they refused a monument somewhere on public property about their tenets of law, if they wanted to build one? Probably not, since they haven't gone to court over a litigation issue like that, afaik. They and the ACLU just mean to target Christianity and this nation's government structures and that's prosecutable as harassment, etc.
============================================= I say it takes no faith to believe in nothing (but yourself). And that is just it. Mankind worships HIMSELF, thus producing a generation of the worship of the creation instead of The Creator. "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." really does have a lot of truth in it. As this nation washes God from it's memory, God will also wash this nation from his.
If you have no faith in Jesus Christ than there is nothing left to believe in but death.
If you have no faith in Jesus Christ than there is nothing left to believe in but death. =============================================== Faith the substance of things hoped for, but the evidence of things not seen.
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#6. To: GreyLmist (#4)
Atheism and Agnosticism are both faith-based religious belief systems. The Atheists' faith is that there is no God/Creator and the Agnostics' faith is unsure whether there is or isn't a God/Creator. America needs to stop indulging those faith-based religious belief systems with pretentious "dominion" over all others here. They are the ones violating the equal standing and co-sharing precepts of our 1st Amendment rights. Were they refused a monument somewhere on public property about their tenets of law, if they wanted to build one? Probably not, since they haven't gone to court over a litigation issue like that, afaik. They and the ACLU just mean to target Christianity and this nation's government structures and that's prosecutable as harassment, etc.
#10. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#6)
I say it takes no faith to believe in nothing (but yourself).
#11. To: purplerose (#10)
I say it takes no faith to believe in nothing (but yourself).
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