Okla. braces for challenge to Ten Commandments law

Backers of a new law authorizing a privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of Oklahoma's Capitol didn't get good news this week.

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Ala.'s Ten Commandments judge running for governor

An Alabama judge known for refusing to move a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the state's judicial building is again running for governor, with his message Monday going beyond his longstanding call for the government to acknowledge God.

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Court rules for Utah city in religious marker case

Governments that receive donations of Ten Commandments displays and other monuments for public parks are not compelled to take everything they are offered, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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AP: Foe of 10 Commandments judge loses license

A key figure in the case that ousted Alabama's Ten Commandments judge has had his law license suspended over a complaint filed by a client.

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Heston's Ten Commandments to be auctioned

Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer.

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Heston Was the Regal Face of Scrappy NRA

As Moses, Charlton Heston thunderously rallied his people with the Ten Commandments in hand. The tablet of his political life was carved with something else — the Second Amendment.

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Ky. Governor Loses Bid for 2nd Term

Cyclist Lance Armstrong and Kentucky's new governor were among the few people who could get voters to embrace change on a day they seemed inclined to re-elect incumbents and reject ballot measures calling for new proposals.

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Ten Commandments Display Going to Trial

The 8-foot granite slab planted in the Haskell County courthouse lawn makes the Ten Commandments easy to read and hard to miss from the state highway that doubles as this town's main thoroughfare.

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Because of the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, for several generations now when people think of Moses, the face they see is Charlton Heston's. But the real Moses was no Hollywood he-man.

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Judge DeWeese tried to pretend that he had a secular purpose in putting up the display:My purpose in creating and displaying this poster was to express my views about two warring legal philosophies that motivate behavior and the consequences that I have personally witnessed in my …

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In his book, Losing Faith in Faith, denominational-preacher-turned-atheist, Dan Barker, wrote a chapter titled "Is the Bible a Good Moral Guide?" In that chapter, he argued that the Bible is not an acceptable guide for human behavior.

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The Class Envy Czar, Barack Obama

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." Exodus 20:17

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Christians can best support Israel by realizing Jesus did not do away with Torah. He said to live by every word of God. Christians are in error and do not know their Messiah as the Word of God, the same yesterday, today and forever.

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Americans read into the Bible exactly what they want to read into the Bible -- they quote it when it supports their position, and they ignore it when it doesn't. It get's better...

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A federal appeals court in Denver ruled Monday that a Ten Commandments monument outside the Haskell County, Okla., courthouse endorses religion based on public comments made by county commissioners after it was installed.

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Tonight begins the Jewish Holiday of Shavuot the anniversary of when God Gave us the Ten Commandments. Along with Passover and Sukkot, Shavout is one of the three major Jewish festivals.

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Shortly after dawn last Dec. 14, four Ugandan Mi-24 helicopters banked low over the thick forest canopy of Congo's Garamba National Park. A dense fog had rolled in overnight, and the weather had turned nasty.

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Unity comes with "It is written." The primary message of the Qur'an is to follow the whole Bible and Jesus said to live by EVERY word of God (Ahmad # 42.14-16, 5.68, 69; Mat 4.4) The pope could restore Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 Ten Commandments as they are written, res …

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It is interesting the United States media ignored or was not informed that Barack Obama would go to the gathering of religious leaders, Alliance of Civilizations in Istanbul.

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A bill to allow the Ten Commandments to be placed on the Capitol grounds has won approval in a Senate committee over arguments it is unconstitutional.

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Ten Guidelines for Joyous Living

I sometimes got a negative connotation from the "Thou shalt nots" in the King James Version of the Ten Commandments that is used in many churches.

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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that a Utah community does not have to erect a religious code from a group called Summum in a public park where the Ten Commandments are displayed.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday, in one of the most closely watched free speech decisions in years, that a tiny religious sect could not force a Utah city to let it erect a monument to its faith in a public park.

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The Fifth Commandment, honoring ones parents. Very poignantly, I recall, he said that it is a commandment that carries the benefit of long life should one adhere properly; in his opinion, rendering it both, important and very hard to do.

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Things You Should Know: Ten Commandments Displays Misquote God

Perhaps the most debated display purported to entangle Church and State in the modern era, the Ten Commandments have repeatedly been the subject of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits.

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A leading U.S. criminal defense lawyer and a key figure in the case that ousted Alabama's Ten Commandments judge in 2003 had his law license suspended over a complaint filed by a fellow lawyer.

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The Death of Common Sense....

The original piece was written by Lori Borgman. I'm not sure when she wrote it, all I know is it is STILL as appropriate now as it was whenever she wrote it, maybe more so...

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Why the Hebrew Bible and not the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

What bugs me the most is the moral claim of Christians and other Hebrew Bible based religions as if the Ten Commandments were god given to them. The Ten Commandments (Exodus:20:1-26) are taken from the Declarations to Rekhti-merti-f-ent-Ma'at and the 42 Negative Affirmations as  …

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A long-running dispute over a cross in the Mojave National Preserve in Southern California may give the Supreme Court a chance to shift the law on church-state separation.

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ACLJ Files Reply Brief at Supreme Court

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The Senate Judiciary Committee decided on a display to include the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Star-Spangled Banner, the Bill of Rights, the Preamble to the South Carolina Constitution, the national motto "In God  …

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(Satire)

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A Christian organization is pressuring the community of Elberton, Ga., to tear down a massive, granite monument that lists an alternative set of Ten Commandments that the organization labels satanic.

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