Post by AuntieSocial on Nov 20, 2003 18:58:47 GMT -5
Legislators join religious push
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Compiled from wire reports
Posted: November 20, 2003
Publication: Orlando Sentinel
TALLAHASSEE -- Fearing the Ten Commandments and other religious staples are under attack, a group of conservative Florida lawmakers are joining a national push to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow posting of the commandments in schools, courts and other public places.
The move comes in the wake of several court fights across the country over the biblical commandments' place in American public life. Last week, Alabama's chief justice was removed from the bench for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court.
More than a dozen Republican state House and Senate members met Wednesday with leaders of a grass-roots evangelical movement that wants a change to the U.S. Constitution to spell out that the Ten Commandments, the motto "In God We Trust," and other phrases referencing God can be displayed.
The House measure would be purely symbolic, without any force of law, but the activists pushing it say it would send a powerful message. A similar message to Congress has already passed in Kentucky.
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Click here to read article on the original site
Compiled from wire reports
Posted: November 20, 2003
Publication: Orlando Sentinel
TALLAHASSEE -- Fearing the Ten Commandments and other religious staples are under attack, a group of conservative Florida lawmakers are joining a national push to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow posting of the commandments in schools, courts and other public places.
The move comes in the wake of several court fights across the country over the biblical commandments' place in American public life. Last week, Alabama's chief justice was removed from the bench for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court.
More than a dozen Republican state House and Senate members met Wednesday with leaders of a grass-roots evangelical movement that wants a change to the U.S. Constitution to spell out that the Ten Commandments, the motto "In God We Trust," and other phrases referencing God can be displayed.
The House measure would be purely symbolic, without any force of law, but the activists pushing it say it would send a powerful message. A similar message to Congress has already passed in Kentucky.
Maverick: Added to the news page. Message icon updated.
