That is too wide ranging a question form me to answer.
I can't envision all the possibilities.
But you haven't answered my question.
Is this all leading anywhere?
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Hamilton County (TX) May Install Ten Commandments Monument Outside Courthouse
- Thread starter Skwim
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I can't envision all the possibilities.
But you haven't answered my question.
Is this all leading anywhere?
Skwim
Veteran Member
Ah yes, the historic Jewish people whose homosexual population almost out numbered its heterosexual population.
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The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Are you familiar with Home Rule?
Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
So none then
You sound like homophobes complaining about the slippery slope leading to pedophilia. Just so ya know.
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
I want to get rid of that bull statue in Wall St., it scares me
Skwim
Veteran Member
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
And with ancient Israel being the first nation to establish the Rule of Law over that of the Rule of a Monarch, especially appropriate. It's more of a historical monument than a religious one
Asking questions without answering others' first?
No, that won't do.
In which case angered citizens may exercise the right of the sledge hammer---actually, I'd like to see the thing put up just to see it torn down.
What is it, the water they drink down south?
"For some reason, the commissioners in Hamilton County, Texas think it’d be a great idea to install a stand-alone Ten Commandments monument outside the local courthouse, despite a very clear Supreme Court ruling that says that very thing is an illegal promotion of Christianity.
There’s already an “In God We Trust” sign outside the courthouse which skirts the boundary of church/state separation but has traditionally been on the “legal” side of it. The Ten Commandments one, however, would cross that boundary without question.
When the commissioners met this week, the discussion went in the wrong direction when a local judge cosplaying Roy Moore insisted there was nothing wrong with the potential Christian monument.
It’s in the amendments somewhere. One of the first few, I think. Pretty early in the bunch.“I have no problem bringing it before the court and the will of the people in my opinion will be served,” County Judge Mark Tynes said.
“There have been those who waved the Constitution at me and I said, ‘OK wonderful, show me in the Constitution where what we are doing is against the Constitution?’”
Christ, that man is a judge…"
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Well, the danger is that someone might take them too seriously and start destroying images of Jesus. Since He is God and those images should be forbidden by one of the entries on that table.
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- viole
Ok. Ergo, objective morality from god is just what the others were doing?
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- viole
So your answer is "No", municipal government is not required to adhere to the Constitution or two centuries of Constitutional interpretation from the SCOTUS.
Is that right?
It implies that lynching is OK, as long as the community as a whole supports it.
If you think that some parts of the US Constitution apply to municipal government, but others do not, please explain which do and which do not. And especially, explain why you chose the ones you did and not the other ones.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Cut the hyperbole
I take it you can't explain why you believe what you do.
Slavery is ethically supported by the Bible. 19th century slavers knew that. They were true Christian believers.
You have adopted secular humanist values, which don't allow slavery. You're less Christian than they were, because you don't.
Why not just admit that your ethics are superior to biblical ethics, because you know more than the authors of scriptures?
Tom
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
And the hyperbole continues
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Oh, cool. Another nonsensical analogy.
I live in a place drenched in hyperbole.
"Jesus Loves You", but He doesn't want you to get married because then God the Father will have to smite the whole nation.
Can you actually give the rest of us an answer to my question, or are you just going to keep dodging and squealing "hyperbole"?
Tom
ETA. ~One question you could answer is this one:
"Do you still support slavery, or have you adopted secular humanist values on that issue"?
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Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
I don't think todays moralistic value has any real meaning if its applied other periods of history
Of course. I am challenging the claim that the Bible can serve at all as a moral guide. But if all that it prescribes is just what the bronze age zeitgeist prescribed then...i suppose not.
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- viole