Ohio Judge Has No Right To Push Religion In Courtroom, Says Americans United

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Americans United for Separation of Church and State
January 27, 2010

An Ohio judge should remove a poster displaying the Ten Commandments from his courtroom, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told a federal appeals court.

Americans United has filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese’s poster is an unconstitutional governmental endorsement of religion. A lower court has already held that this display shows “a preference for Judeo-Christian faiths” and does not belong in a courtroom.

The poster, designed by DeWeese, features the Commandments alongside “humanist precepts.” Below the text is a statement that says DeWeese believes in moral absolutes such as the Commandments rather than the moral relativism of the Humanist Manifesto.

Although the poster references DeWeese’s acknowledgment of “the importance of Almighty God’s fixed moral standards,” he claims that his display is not religious but merely an illustration of legal or philosophical “theory.”

http://www.au.org/media/press-releases/archives/2010/01/ohio-judge-has-no-right-to.html
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Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom.

[Warpy]

1. De Weese has obviously not read them since he was a child

or is one of those loons who thinks that telling Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, and every other non desert god adherent that their religions are trash via those first 3 commandments is just fine.

No one who is not a fundy Christian could possibly expect justice in that courtroom.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Removing the poster will do no good at all, unless you also remove

the judge who posted it.

Anyone who so blatantly displays his bias cannot be considered an unbiased jurist.

Impeach the asshole.

[zbdent]

3. so how is posting the "Ten Commandments" going to deter a criminal from

committing a crime?

Especially when one of the key tactics of criminals is to avoid being near legal areas?