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Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story, has said regarding the Supreme Court, "The danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion in defense of private rights or public liberties; but that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passion and politics and prejudices of the day."
He said that in 1829.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court said it would take up the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings.
The high court will hear appeals early next year involving displays in Kentucky and Texas.
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said that he hopes the court uses the cases to declare government displays of religious documents and symbols unconstitutional. Supreme Court Justice Story also said, "One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the common law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations."
So, do the presence of the Ten Commandments on public property establish a state religion? This is what the Supreme Court will consider. Interestingly, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, noted that as the court considers this issue in their chamber, they will be sitting near a large carving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments.
Let us pray that the court will not yield to the passions, politics and prejudices of our day that such to remove every vestige of what made America the greatest nation in human history.
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Gary Randall
President & Chairman
Faith and Freedom Foundation
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