Pittsburgh-Area School District Must Remove 10 Commandments From Campus
A school district outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been ordered by a federal judge to remove a public display of the Ten Commandments from a school by a federal judge.
The monument had been located outside Connellsville Area Junior High School, but the judge ruled it violates the First Amendment. While the judge stopped short of ordering the district to remove it, school district officials said the judge’s conclusion was very clear that the monument was unconstitutional, and therefore another student could also bring suit.
The statue was donated in the 1950s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It will now be returned to the group….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica
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13 responses to Pittsburgh-Area School District Must Remove 10 Commandments From Campus
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StoneyCurtisll September 11th, 2015 at 18:24
Another attack on Christianity~!!
The 10 commandments should not have been on a public school campus to begin with.
nola878 September 11th, 2015 at 18:46
Them poor, poor persecuted persecutors!
Dwendt44 September 11th, 2015 at 19:31
The photo is the self styled monument that that judge put in his courthouse without permission and had to remove later anyway.
This is supposed to be the actual monument.
Budda September 11th, 2015 at 20:48
Whose idea was this? And they should be prosecuted.
Carla Akins September 11th, 2015 at 20:51
It was the 50’s, during the “big red scare”, around the same time they added god to the pledge and put it on paper money. It’s now long past time to correct this type of harassment.
rg9rts September 12th, 2015 at 03:42
I remember that
Carla Akins September 12th, 2015 at 08:06
I was born in 61, so I don’t remember, but my grandmother (who was a bible thumpin southern baptist) made sure I knew of and understood important events and how our government could use its power for evil. Of course she was mostly talking about the McCarthy witch hunt but she never left out the facts.
Budda September 12th, 2015 at 10:55
Thank you for that information on the time frame. Still, who in this day and age let it stand?
Carla Akins September 13th, 2015 at 22:34
They absolutely shouldn’t. It’s kind of like raising children, you do what you think is best and when you learn/know better, you do better. But most of all you stop defending the wrong practice.
rg9rts September 12th, 2015 at 03:42
Some people just don’t get it
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Larry Schmitt September 12th, 2015 at 16:29
Most people don’t consider violations of half of them to be wrong in the first place. Coveting? Most right wing “christians” don’t even know what it means. Observing the Sabbath? Honor your parents? What do they mean by “honor?” Why didn’t they say “love?” And most people will lie whenever it will profit them.
rwgate September 12th, 2015 at 21:29
If we didn’t covet, most of the businesses in the US would no longer exist. What is advertising? It encourages us to covet. Which Sabbath do we observe? The Jewish Sabbath (the 10 Commandments are OT, i.e. Jewish) starts on Friday night at sunset and continues until sunset on Saturday (any Jewish people, please correct me if I’m wrong). The penalty for not ‘honoring’ your parents is death. Where is the exception in the 10 Commandments for excusing killing during wartime? As to lying, we would all kill each other quickly if we could only be bluntly honest. A little lying is the WD40 of communication. Every time you tell your kids there is a Santa Claus, you’re lying. Or that there is a tooth fairy. Or if you clap your hands real hard Tinkerbell will come back to life.
Now that we’ve discussed the only four Commandments that actually affect behavior, the rest of the Commandments only deal with religious edicts and have nothing to do with our laws and society.