Sooo, "history" is only three fucking years old?? No wonder our kids ain't lernin' stuff these daze.

[kpete]

Judge rules Ten Commandments monument must go

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7w_htNvYXZc9MHvgBiaI7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTYzOTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/

Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said in his ruling in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that the monument amounts to government speech and has the "principal effect of endorsing religion."

Because of the context and history surrounding the granite monument, Parker said Bloomfield clearly violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. He gave a Sept. 10 deadline for its removal.

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"Bloomfield Mayor Scott Eckstein said he was surprised the judge would rule against "a historical document."

"The 6-foot-tall monument was erected in July 2011 by a former city councilor."

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http://news.yahoo.com/judge-rules-ten-commandments-monument-must-141940443.html

[packman]

1. AH,you might want to rethink your OP headline

True, the monument was erected 3 yrs. ago, but the Mayor (regardless of him having his head up his ass) is correct - it is historical even if it is a flawed document.

[kpete]

2. his·tor·i·cal

adjective
belonging to the past, not the present.
synonyms: past, bygone, ancient, old, former; More

https://www.google.com/search?q=historical+definition&rlz=1C1CHME_enUS304US304&oq=historical+def&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.10112j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

[Codeine]

6. One imagines the Ten Commandments

fulfill that criteria. The person in question did not claim it was an historical monument, but rather an historical document.

That said, tear the fuckin thing out.

[n2doc]

3. If the Christians who support this crap had to live by the 10 commandments, most would be in jail

That coveting one is a killer. Same with False witness. Actually just about all of them....except maybe 2 and 6.

[MisterP]

9. II might definitely count given how they're treating it!

[nilesobek]

13. Most of them break the 4th commandment continually,

based on the early Church's despising the Jews. They changed the holy day from Saturday to Sunday.

[eShirl]

4. I would think the Bill of Rights would be more appropriate. n/t

[spanone]

5. hysterical document.

[KG]

7. fictional document

[Chan790]

8. I'd rather he ruled that other religions or non-religion had to have equal access.

Nothing would look as good next to the 10 Commandments as a statue of Charles Darwin shaking hands with Roddy McDowell dressed as Caesar from the Planet of the Apes movies.

[IDemo]

10. That, or a "You Are Here" sign,

depicting left-to right: a star, a nova, an early solar system, incoming comets, an ocean, microbial life, fish, early humans, and a mirror.

[hfojvt]

11. I blame Elton John

[jmowreader]

12. Someone explain "graven image" to me...

And more specifically, how granite Ten Commandments monuments, black velvet paintings of Christ, 300-foot crosses next to the Interstate, hundred-foot statues of Jesus, creches, religious tattoos and all the other things Christians adore won't get them shot straight into hell when they die.