Boise set for historic vote on public 10 Commandments display

[Bluebear]

Swindell

South Dakotans will be voting on abortion, Missourians on cloning human lives, and voters in Boise, Idaho, will be making a decision on a rock in park. But the vote in Idaho's capital city is more than that; it's a referendum on the values of Christianity in America. That is how Brandi Swindell, a leader of the Keep the Commandments Coalition in Boise, feels about the effort in that city to restore a monument of God's Biblical laws to a city park.

The issue is going before voters on Nov. 7 – for the first time in any American city – on whether the injunctions can and should be on public display. "This is absolutely the first time in American history there will be a vote on the public display of the Ten Commandments," she told WND yesterday. "We're really excited to have his historic opportunity for our own community and the state of Idaho. This will be a huge win for the entire nation for religious freedom and the democratic process." ....

She's excited because she views the referendum on the Ten Commandments as a referendum on the basis for them: God's Word. "We're all better off when we don't lie, or steal or murder," she said.

"It's not about a stone in a park. We're fighting for the Word of the living God, and the principles and truth found in the Ten Commandments. If we have them out where people can see them, and use them as a moral guide, we wouldn't have abortion, we wouldn't have cloning, we wouldn't have euthanasia, that culture of death," she said.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52640

[murielm99]

1. ...we wouldn't have the Constitution,

the bill of rights, etc., etc.

This is fucking illegal, stupid woman.

[Chulanowa]

2. Has she ever read the bible?

I'm glad she can name the three Commandments that line up with American law. Really damn glad, because those happen to be the only three. Strangely such laws exist in atheist China, Shinto Japan, Hindu India...

It would "erase the culture of death"? I reiterate - has she ever read the bible? I know for certain I know the book better thna she does, but I would hope she has at least a passing familiarity. Sheesh. if I give her 200 foreskins, will she bend over for me? Woo yah.

And what's with that picture? Pardon me, local and sane christians, but I've never understood the fascination some people display with an impliment oftorture and one of the more horrible ways to end another human being's life. Seriously, if Jesus came back today, I think he'd be just a little freaked out by that field she's standing in.

[rpannier]

7. Let's be fair here

1. They're probably the only 3 she knows

2. It's 2 more than rep westmoreland knew on the Colbert Report

[BR_Parkway]

3. And the Torah, pagan symbols and all the other religions will

be allowed to be displayed too, right Brandy?

Truth in advertising - at least her last name more fairly reflects her chosen profession vs Dobson or Falwell.

[left is right]

4. The first thing God did after issuing the 10 commandments

was to order that a box be built and for them to be sealed into it. Wonder what that was all about!?! And then about 800 years later the box disappeared and was never seen again.

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[NaturalHigh]

9. You are pretty sure 99% of all Christians...

think of Jews as Christ-killers? What a bigoted, uninformed, uneducated, absolutely stupid statement. Do you have any research to back that up?

[WhollyHeretic]

6. That is an evil looking picture

:scared:

[Toots]

8. This could be evidence of the "tyranny of the majority"

Just exactly what the Constitution was created for. To protect the minority from the majority with equality for all. Not just Christians...

[Bluebear]

12. "tyranny of the majority" is absolutely right. nt

[Generic Other]

10. The vote may be the first of its kind

but most folks in Idaho already broke all the damn commandments already, so it's too little too late.

[Bluebear]

11. But that's because they couldn't SEE them!

As "Brandi" explains, she is FIGHTING for the Word, and if it is on DISPLAY it will do away with all that evil! :eyes: