http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0803/27moore.html
House vote sanctifies religion
Judge Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has drawn national attention with his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court, even though its presence has been ruled an unconstitutional endorsement of religion by government.
Far fewer Americans know about an even more troubling turn of events. On July 23, shortly before Congress recessed, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to bar the use of federal funds to implement that ruling against Moore. In essence, they voted 260-161 to block enforcement of the Constitution.
On the flip side, many are claiming that to forcibly remove the Ten Commandments monument would violate _their_ First Amendment rights of freedom of religion.
(I'm not arguing one way or the other here, but simply reporting that both sides are using the same Constitutional argument to support their positions.)
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded project." - James Madison
"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:31-36)
-- Ronn! :)
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