Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That sounds like what alot of Christian groups do. more so than most Atheist groups.Just stop trying to push your opinons on the majority.
Actually, the original Constitution only has one defined crime, and that crime being treason. It says nothing about honoring god, your parents, keeping the Sabbath holy, not coveting thy neighbor, or anything else from the 10 Commandments. It doesn't even remotely say "Thou shalt not murder."Yes. But the laws were based one the Christian values represented in the Ten Commandments which the founders of the nation believed in. So the Ten Commandments are the roots of the laws in the United States. Showing the Ten Commandments is simply showing the source of our laws. It's not promoting Christianty, it's depicting the historical values our nation was founded on.
Actually, it was wrote to give citizens rights and protections they didn't have in England. Such as the rule of double jeopardy, which states once you are tried for a crime and found innocent, you cannot be re-tried. It was common practice in England at the time to continuously retry certain individuals found innocent until they were found guilty. Another law being the Writ of Habeas Corpus, which assures a citizen cannot be arrested for any reason, but due proses must be followed.
Some laws were to allow for citizens to protect themselves, such as the right to bear arms, and the right to refuse to allow a soldier to rest in your house. And then there are the liberties, such as free speech, free press, freedom to peacefully assemble, and freedom to protest the government. Many of those rights of which were also suppressed in England.
The biggest part deals with how the government is run, and even still there is not one mentioning of God, the 10 Commandments, or anything else.
Then they better start on displaying page after page of various Thomas Paine books and pamphlets.If the laws of America were based on some other document we would show that document.