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MountainLaurel

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:23 AM
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Faith Group Plans to Unveil Monument

. . . of the 10 Commandments, across the street from SCOTUS.

These people are not going to stop until they get their full-blown theocracy.

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A D.C.-based evangelical Christian group has a new idea for promoting the Ten Commandments: putting a monument to the stone tablets across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Faith and Action says on its Web site that it plans to unveil the waist-high, 850-pound granite sculpture Saturday on the front lawn of the rowhouse on Second Street NE where the national group's offices are. But the group apparently doesn't have the approval it needs from at least two agencies, city officials and neighborhood activists said.

Faith and Action's president, the Rev. Robert Schenck, declined to return phone calls yesterday, as did his spokesman. On its Web site, the group said it tried unsuccessfully for five years to get the proper permits and decided to go ahead with the unveiling based on "common law that governs garden displays."

The sculpture "will be visible to the nine justices as they arrive and leave each day," the site said in explaining why the group undertook the project.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053101970.html

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teenagebambam

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:25 AM
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1. Well, so what?

If it's private property who cares what they do?

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LynneSin

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:29 AM
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2. and nothing like giving them free publicity by complaining about it

Anyhow, why not post the 10 Commandment outside of the White House so Bush can be reminded everyday of all the laws he has broken!

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YOY

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:31 AM
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6. Exactly

Let the freaks do what ever the hell they want. Their little monument will have little real impact on the SC and it's their property.

That's their right, just like it's our right to call them fucking loons.

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cantstandbush

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:29 AM
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3. Now what will they do when they find that the 10 Commandments

originally were rules by a pagan civilization thousands of years BEFORE Moses came on the scene? As is the case with the Bible stories about the flood, the beginnings of mankind, and the figure of Abraham. And what if they learned that the Sumerians were black people?

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displacedtexan

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:39 AM
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8. What if they connected the dots between...

Moses, his stonecutter brother, and the extended stay on
the mountain top?

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durrrty libby

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:29 AM
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4. I could tolerate these hypocrites if they actually followed

the ten commandments.

Hell....If they only practiced Thou shall not kill

I might acknowledge them.

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bunkerbuster1

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:30 AM
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5. Go for it. Show the world you worship a graven image.

I guess this is some kind of pagen cult offshoot of Christianity?

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Strong Atheist

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:34 AM
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7. Well, if it is private property, it would be ok, except that they appear

not to have the proper permits, which is always a consideration. We all have to obey permits and zoning regulations...

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