Law Academics
Subject: RE: Steven Williams case
and the Ten Commandments cases
The ADL has filed a very thoughtful brief elaborating on Marc and
Paul's points. A link to it can be found on the their web cite
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/SupremeCourt_33/4601_33.htm
Alan Brownstein
ect: Re: Steven Williams case and the Ten Commandments cases
In a message dated 12/16/2004 9:10:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is fundamentally wrong as a matter of fact. There are far more than 10 commandments in what we know as the Ten Commandments.
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In a message dated 12/16/2004 11:40:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have to say that James Henderson's point about there being no differences, etc., seems to me undermined by the fact that he refers to the text in a way previously unfamiliar to me as the Ten Words rather
Not to put too fine a point on these issues, but the for Roman Catholics
and Lutherans, the 7th Commandment is a prohibition on stealing, not
adultery. That illustrates the whole problem of putting up these
monuments. What does it say to a child, for example, who passes the
courthouse everyda
I suspect we have a disagreement here that is verging on the
theological. The text of Exod 20 contains many commandments; so does
Denuteronomy 5. No matter how one counts them, or parses them, it there
are clearly more than ten separate commandments in these chapters. Jews
and Christians di
I have to say that James Henderson's point about there being no
differences, etc., seems to me undermined by the fact that he refers to
the text in a way previously unfamiliar to me as the Ten Words rather
than the Ten Commandments. Also, I assume that he doesn't literally
mean "set out in ful
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Subject: Re: Steven Williams case
and the Ten Commandments cases
In a message dated 12/15/2004
4:52:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hm -- and some people say that the
Protestant Empire is dead and gone.
If one can display the Ten Commandments (five gets you ten that the
rejection of the totality of the law.
Marc stern
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Subject: Re: Steven Williams case
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I want to second Ed
Braton's thoughtful post, and inquire of anyone who knows whether the laws,
rules, customs of the Jews prior to the acquisition of the Ten Commandments
included prohibitions against murder and theft, for example. If the
answer is yes then all those who agree with
In a message dated 12/16/2004 9:10:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is fundamentally wrong as a matter of fact. There are far more than 10 commandments in what we know as the Ten Commandments.
<>There are significant differences in numbering the commandments, differen
from denial of cert in City of Elkhart v. Book,532 u.s.
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Marc Stern
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Subject: Re: Steven Williams case
I must say, as it concerns the 10 commandments issue, that I'm not so
concerned about the question of which text of the 10 commandments one
uses as I am the question of why anyone rationally believes that they
form the "basis of our laws" in the first place. At least 6 of the 10
commandments wo
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Subject: Re: Steven Williams case
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In a message dated 12/15/2004 4:52:10 PM Eastern Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hm -- and some people say that the Protestant
In a message dated 12/15/2004 4:52:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hm -- and some people say that the Protestant Empire is dead and gone.
If one can display the Ten Commandments (five gets you ten that the only
version we are likely to see in any of these displays is the eva
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Subject: Steven Williams case and the Ten Commandments cases
As I was reading the SG's brief in McCreary, I was struck by the
similarity
of the arguments offered in the brief to justify the Ten Commandments
display and the arguments offered by list members to support Williams'
teac
t Alan has supposed below!
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:36 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Steven Williams case and the Ten Commandments cases
As I was reading the SG's brief in McC
As I was reading the SG's brief in McCreary, I was struck by the similarity
of the arguments offered in the brief to justify the Ten Commandments
display and the arguments offered by list members to support Williams'
teaching materials. The SG argues that the Ten Commandments display is
constit
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