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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 09:38 AM
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Would the 'real' Ten Commandments please step forward?
Edited on Tue Aug-26-03 09:40 AM by kgfnally
Interesting article at sfgate.com today:

Let's say the Supreme Court of the United States allows the chief justice of the great state of Alabama to keep his 2-ton monument to the Ten Commandments in his office building in Montgomery.

Next question:

Which Ten Commandments?

You've got your Jewish Ten Commandments, your Catholic Ten Commandments, your Lutheran Ten Commandments, your Charlton Heston Ten Commandments, your King James Bible Ten Commandments, your New Revised Standard Version Ten Commandments, and they don't all agree as to which commandment is which -- or what they really mean.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/26/MN274126.DTL

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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 09:42 AM
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1. Thanks...Good stuff
Rove is looking for a simple low cost wedge issue. I'm sure in the next year we'll more crap like this including flag burning, gay marriage amendment, and the other right wing low brow emotional issues.

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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 09:52 AM
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2. the gay marriage amendment
would bite them in the ass. You don't prohibit something that's already prohibited. By adopting a campaign to add a marriage amendment to the Constitution, they're effectively stating that the Constitution currently allows gay marriage.

Neat, huh?
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 10:52 AM
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4. Interesing - never thought of it that way
Kind of like how if Faux News would have continued the Franken law suit they would have had to proven they were "Fair and Balanced" - something they probably can't.

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theophilus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 10:05 AM
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3. Why can't they just post the "Golden Rule"?
I would be satisfied if the would "do unto others as they would have them do unto them". Why,
I would even be happy if they would post the Silver Rule of Confucius: "If you don't like what is
being done to you, don't do it to someone else". That would be a step in the right direction, too.
No matter which 10 Commandments we pick, they are not going to be the best rule of behavior in
this day and age. If love is not the motivation, something is wrong. Obviously, Compassionate Conservatism
is not based on love, agape or anyother kind.

Garrison Keillor had a great line......Compassionate Conservatism will sentence a child to death for
murder but will grant him/her a wish before they are executed.
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joshdawg Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 10:52 AM
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5. Bill Maher made a thoughtful statement,
Only two commandments refer to any law and yet this monstrosity is in a federal courthouse. Hmmmmmmmm.
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