While it isn’t from the more conservative Court of Appeals it certainly will have some lasting impact. The culture is changing and it is doing os at a very fast pace as more barriers are being removed. The purpose is alter the values, understanding and behavior of the American citizen. Suddenly the Church is finding itself realizing that the culture it had grown up with is no longer there.
Seeing that the laws of the Ten Commandments were foundational to behavior. While we have freedom of Religion there are some that are specific to the Creator that aren’t enforceable because each has the right to worship as their conscience determines. Of course this was meant to keep the sectarian Christian Groups from taking power and forcing others to worship as they saw fit which was what happened for centuries in Europe.
But how do you rule “Do not murder” or “Do not steal’ as unconstitutional. No one is advocating for the Law to be the “law of the land”. Israel couldn’t keep the law either. We have our own laws. But the principles of justice shouldn’t be out of vogue. Nor should it be unconstitutional to remind people of our Creator’s words to a nation. Whether they choose to listen is completely up to them. And unlike Islam we won’t be blowing up anyone because they don’t like the Creator and the author of our rights.
Christian Newswire/ — The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the purpose of the Ten Commandments display placed in the Courts of McCreary and Pulaski Counties is religious and it violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
However, Judge James L. Ryan recommended a rehearing with the full Sixth Circuit panel of Judges because of several other rulings by the court which had different outcomes. Judge Ryan said, “Perhaps the panel will reconsider an en banc hearing in this case.”
Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University Law School said, “The Ten Commandments are a part of the fabric of our country. They are as much at home in display about the foundations of law as the stars and stripes are in the flag. The Founding Fathers would be outraged that we are even debating the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments.”
via Ten Commandments Called Unconstitutional- The Crosstalk Blog.
The Commandments.
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;
3 Do not have any other gods before me.
4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me,
6 but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
8 Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
9 For six days you shall labour and do all your work.
10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.
12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 You shall not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.