Hostettler asks Bush not to enforce removal of 10 Commandments monument.

[LostInAnomie]

WASHINGTON-U.S. Rep. John Hostettler sent a letter Thursday to President George W. Bush asking him not to enforce the ruling issued by a federal district judge Jan. 31, who ruled the Ten Commandments monument at the Gibson County Courthouse must be removed.

In the letter Hostettler told Bush the ruling made by U.S. Southern District Judge Richard Young in the case of Russelburg v. Gibson County, where the removal of the monument was ordered, is not consistent with the intent of the framers of the Constitution or the Christian heritage of the United States.

He asked the president to order the Justice Department and the U.S. Marshal's Service not to enforce the removal of the monument as ruled by the federal court, or enforce any future appellate courts' rulings in the matter, including that of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The federal judiciary has "no constitutional or statutory means be which to enforce its own opinion," Hostettler wrote, and it would be U.S. Marshals or the president's "employees" who would be called to enforce the ruling.


Why the hell does this fucking idiot have to be my congressman?

[LisaLynne]

1. From one Hoosier to another ...

I'm sorry. Roemer was my former Congressman, if that helps.

[asjr]

2. Did this guy have a seance to discuss with the framers

what they meant? Religion--meet State!

[MJP]

3. Quotes from our Founding Fathers

I posted this once regarding Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments monument...I think it's applicable here:

Top Ten Quotes Showing the "Ten Commandments Judge" is Off His Rocker

10. "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
- Article 11 of The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, June 7, 1797

9. "The Doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."
- John Adams

8. "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
- James Madison

7. "Every new and successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance."
- James Madison 1822

6. "The appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that 'Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment'."
- James Madison, 1811

5. "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
- Thomas Paine

4. "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
- Thomas Jefferson February 10, 1814

3. "I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
- Thomas Jefferson 1799

2. "Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?"
- Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife December 27, 1856

And

1. "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
- Thomas Jefferson, as President, in a letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802

[ElaineinIN]

4. Some one send him Marbury v. Madison

Which states that the courts are the final arbiter of what's constitutional. That's been the law since, oh, I don't know, about 1800. Geez.

Oh, and failing to follow a court order... that'd be oh, I don't know, unconstitutional too. After all, it is the job of the executive branch to carry out the laws--which include the orders of the judiciary branch.

I'm not sure it would amount to treason, but it would be pretty damn close.

From the 9th district --so sorry 8th district, glad I'm rid of him, not that Sodrel's now all that much better.

[Voltaire]

5. Um

Yeah I think a quick read of Marbury vs. Madison would surely be in order, except the good congressman would only be familiar with the name Marbury as a shooting guard for the New York Knickerbockers...if that.

Did I say today how much I hate these people?

[ElaineinIN]

6. It also assumes he's literate

of course, we know how seriously he takes abiding by the law.. you know, like those pesky-you-can't-take-a-gun-on-a-plane-even-if-youre- a-wacko-Congressmen statutes. The most hysterical part of that is Johnny's assumption that any terrorist would care enough about his lame, useless ass to try to hurt him. Isn't there anyone in the 8th district who can beat him in 2006? Please?

[DrGonzoLives]

7. Fuck you Hostettler

Goddamn worthless pile of walking human shit. I pray everyday for his downfall and public humiliation.