Thursday, March 03, 2005

Church and State in the Supreme Court

If you've been paying attention, you know that there're some big developments lately on church-state seperation, or not, in the United States Supreme Court. They're hearing two cases about Ten Commandments displays. I don't have time to discuss it in any depth, but I thought I'd point readers to an online transcript of deliberations, as well as this gem from Justice Scalia:
"And when somebody goes by that monument, I don't think they're studying one of the commandments. It's a symbol of the fact that government comes -- derives its authority from God. And that is, it seems to me, an appropriate symbol to be on State grounds."

3 comments:

  1. And silly me, thinking government derived from the consent of the people.
    --Garret.

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  2. On my LiveJournal feeds page this happened to be followed by "Gack, what the ... ??", which I thought highly appropriate given my reaction was pretty much that.

    In other news, I hate Scalia.

    Alexis

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  3. Oh. So one doesn't actually have to obey the Law to be saved by it. One just has to vaguely note a monument in one's peripheral vision that has the Law inscribed on it. That makes things easier. Bring on the monuments, by all means.

    -Sav

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