GOP introduces bill allowing display of Ten Commandments (Georgia)

[Ediacara]

GOP introduces bill allowing display of Ten Commandments

By CARLOS CAMPOS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/17/04

House Republicans Tuesday unveiled their much-anticipated plan to allow government agencies to post the Ten Commandments in courthouses and other public buildings throughout Georgia.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Sharpsburg), a candidate for Congress, will introduce legislation that would allow local and state government to display historical documents with religious significance, including the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the Ten Commandments. The law would require the state attorney general to defend in court any government that posts all three of those documents.

Westmoreland said the legislation is a response to the removal of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse in Alabama last year, and similar battles in Habersham and Barrow counties.

More at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[Mithras61]

1. I guess stupid is as stupid does...

Do you think they'll ever figure out that state laws cannot override the US Constitution?

[Ediacara]

4. it's all for show

They know it's an ultimately losing position, but if they can get enough people mad about the issue, they figure they'll gain votes, even though the position is ultimately illegal.

[Mithras61]

7. Well, they get ME mad about it...

because they are wasting taxpayer $ on stupid stuff that ends up costing millions to fight it out in court! I'm not a GA citizen, but they pull the same crap in TX, so I get pretty hostile about it. What I can't figure out is how they justify it when the state budgets are so tight that they can't even pay the bills for programs that they've enacted!

[mac2]

18. They want to distract from the real issues.....

Such as the voting fraud during the last stolen election in Georgia, George's debt, war,etc.

You can tell an election is coming up...all the religious and sex issues come forward!!!

[Qutzupalotl]

2. They ought to post the Bill of Rights.

That would be much more appropriate, and possibly enlightening.

[Mithras61]

3. Not to mention legal... n/t

n/t

[nankerphelge]

5. Constitution

It would be nice if they at least treated the Constitution as an aspirational goal.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

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[mac2]

8. Constitution and Bill of Rigths?

What chapter of the Bible is that?

When Georgia stated, they wanted the Conferate flag on their new flag for historical reasons, I asked why not the Union Jack because they were a former British colony, Ireland (many prisoners from Ireland were sent to Georgia), Indian tribal symbols for the natives originally there, Pirates who hid there, etc. The Confederacy was just a small part of that history.

What about our national flag? What if we had a flag within a flag for our history? We would have to have the following flags on it...Russia, France, British, Spainish, Mexican, American Indian tribes...there's hundred of those, etc. There wouldn't be room.

It's a rediculous concept and meant to be bigoted against the Yankees and Blacks. Many in the south have a mix both because we don't stay in one area of the country forever and humans being what they are...

I had a Confederate high ranking military man in my Yankee heritage. We don't talk about that side of the family!! Two Virgian unlces of mine were in the Civil War fighting on opposite sides (drove their Mom crazy going back and forth with food, clothes, etc).

Many Georgians are still stuck back in that small frame of history. It's not real and it's not practical. Darlings..."Gone with the Wind" is a movie!!

How about entering the 21st Century and leave behind your hate and ignorance? Go toward a better future...one every citizen in your state can feel wanted and a contributor.

[Dudley_DUright]

10. My view exactly Ex

I am as POed about this as you are! Paging Barry Lynn.

[mac2]

15. Americans United for Separation of Church and State.. is in a forest fire!

Barry Lynn is in a forest fire of Separation issues.

Send money and bug your representatives.

The RWers are out to raid our treasury for themselves. No audit..no questions. Lots of fraud with the Vouchers.

[dakota_democrat]

9. Georgia's making a name for itself...

First the school's ban on teaching evolution, then this. If these people want to live in a religious state, they should just move.

[Ediacara]

11. well the evolution thing sort of fizzled

They wnated to change the wording from "evolution" to "biological change through time." Everyone from Jimmy Carter to current Gov Sunny Perdue (R) thought that was idiotic, so the change was never implimented.

Although...... A wide range of topics like US History 1812-1890, big bang theory and plate tectonic theory are still being ommitted....

[Wapsie B]

12. That's right.

Give them one state of the union and let them turn it into a theocracy. But all the konservative fundies have to live there. They can't infiltrate other states to ban abortions or teach creationism in science class or any other nonsense.

[newyawker99]

24. Hi dakota_democrat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JohnOneillsMemory]

13. This is more rallying the hardcore W=god, his opponents=devil voters. ech.

The GOP is so worried about losing their own base of supporters because of military and economic failures that they are poking the Fundamentalists with a stick to get their support in electing W.

To the American Taliban, anyone who opposes Jesus Bush is the devil. How many tens of thousands do you have to kill before Jesus objects?

Religious crazies all over the place.

One of my favorite quotes:
"Too many Christians are busy sucking the finger
instead of going where it is pointing."

[0007]

14. Why?

"They hope people will turn out to hear Moore, even if they disagree with him. Does Roy Moore look any different than the other right wing nuts?

[HuffleClaw]

16. historical documents eh?

i wonder if the talmud or the quran are a 'historical documents' ?

[newyawker99]

25. Hi HuffleClaw!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Malva Zebrina]

17. Heh--thanks Georgia

I will never spend another penny in your state. It was a nice, but poor state last time I was there. But never ever will I travel there or stop there or spend another nickel there. Thank you very much. Your state needs to get with it.

[mac2]

19. No stopping in Georgia.....

or Florida.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. Amen to that

Friends from Atlanta will be coming up to Boston to visit. Evolution, the Confederate flag, the Ten Commandments. Maybe Georgia should secede and form its own country. We should give Atlanta the choice of remaining in the US, as the city is filled with Dems and progressives.

[Gman]

20. Introduce all the laws they want but

it'll still be illegal to put up the 10 commandments.

I wonder why they ignore Jesus' Beatitudes?

[koopie57]

27. isn't it funny

how these people who demand the 10 commandments be posted do not stop and think about God's greatest law, Love. He wanted us to love one another. He didn't qualify it in any way, shape, form, color, sexuality, religion, goodness, badness. He simply asked us to love one another. And is there not a commandment that states "do not take the Lord's name in vain"? Are they not doing this exact thing? Using God's name to hurt, incite anger, cause chaos? And God also said to especially find love for those who it is hard to love.

God did not cause all this ugliness in the world. That is man-made by people who put the qualifiers in and made up unnecessary rules that get in the way or push people away.

Well, just MHO.

[saltpoint]

21. This is no good.

Do any Georgia DUers sense the hand of Ralph Reed working the controls from behind the curtain on this one?

[aquart]

22. Which ten commandments?

The Hebrew ten or the Catholic ten?

Are we gonna forbid graven images or not?

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Hebrew 10? I thought it was up to 631 in Deuteronomy or Leviticus . . .

n/t

[CO Liberal]

23. Good To Know All Of Georgia's Problems Have Been Solved

Why else would they be wasting time on crap like this?

[leesa]

29. They may as well display them...they sure don't seem able to follow them

I have never seen so many violations of the ten commandments as I have since the GOP and their christian thugs came into power!

[kodi]

30. deep divers in the sea of hypocrisy

hell, list all the biblical commandments. what are there, 422 of them?

i especially am partial to the one where you can't wear cloth woven from 2 types of fibers.