Secular Elation
August 28, 2003, 12:12 AM
Another demonstration of the fundamentalist nature of my city. (http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/story/3776639p-3802963c.html)
The first one is good.
Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama is dead right when he fought the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state judicial courthouse in Montgomery. It is definitely not a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
When the Constitution was written, it was thought that several states tended toward a certain religion if not a state religion. As a result, the founding fathers did not want to get the federal government involved in religion matters between the various states, so they simply stated that no law will be passed preventing religion, nor will there be a federal religion.
Nowhere was it stated "separation of church and state." This was dreamed up by some fuzzy-thinking lawyer. The decision on this issue is so simple. Individual states can have religious symbols anywhere except on federal property.
Another issue is abortion. The Constitution lists the powers given to the federal government. Controlling abortion is not one of them. In fact, it is no different from controlling gambling, a power that also is not given to the federal government.
Judges who are legally trained have limited and questionable judgment and lack historical perspective and spend their time toying with language and splitting hairs. It would be of benefit to our nation if some members of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary were not lawyers.
A prime example of how utterly confused some are is a recently prominent highly legally trained individual who actually taught law and incredibly couldn't even define the meaning of the simple verb "is."
:eek:
The first one is good.
Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama is dead right when he fought the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state judicial courthouse in Montgomery. It is definitely not a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
When the Constitution was written, it was thought that several states tended toward a certain religion if not a state religion. As a result, the founding fathers did not want to get the federal government involved in religion matters between the various states, so they simply stated that no law will be passed preventing religion, nor will there be a federal religion.
Nowhere was it stated "separation of church and state." This was dreamed up by some fuzzy-thinking lawyer. The decision on this issue is so simple. Individual states can have religious symbols anywhere except on federal property.
Another issue is abortion. The Constitution lists the powers given to the federal government. Controlling abortion is not one of them. In fact, it is no different from controlling gambling, a power that also is not given to the federal government.
Judges who are legally trained have limited and questionable judgment and lack historical perspective and spend their time toying with language and splitting hairs. It would be of benefit to our nation if some members of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary were not lawyers.
A prime example of how utterly confused some are is a recently prominent highly legally trained individual who actually taught law and incredibly couldn't even define the meaning of the simple verb "is."
:eek: