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Introduction: A Ten Commandments Country? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--A TEN COMMANDMENTS COUNTRY? |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 621 Words, 3,925 Characters |
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The Supreme Court refused on November 3 to enter the long-running fight over a monument depicting the Ten Commandments and the judge who wants to keep it on display in an Alabama courthouse. The Court quietly rejected appeals from suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had argued that the monument properly acknowledges "God as the source of the community morality so essential to a self-governing society."
This month we examine the relationship of church and state in America a...
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...Catholic) or Deists. They did not want a state religion as in England, which seemed to recognize only one true church. The foundation of freedom of religion that the founders gave us has allowed people of all faiths, whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or one of a thousand other faiths, to see America as the land where one can worship, or not worship, God as he sees fit.
----The Editor
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