Mississippi Covets Neighbor's Monument

[kainah]

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove volunteered Thursday to join neighboring Alabama in the fight over the Ten Commandments monument by offering to display it in his state's capitol building for a week starting September 7.

The 2.6-ton granite edifice was moved from the rotunda of the Alabama state judicial building to a back room out of public view Wednesday on order of a federal court that ruled it violated the U.S. Constitution's restriction on government establishment of religion. (Full story)

Musgrove, a Democrat, urged other governors to allow similar displays in their states "to show support for our common Judeo-Christian heritage."

"Like many Americans, I have watched as Alabama's struggle to display our Christian heritage has unfolded," Musgrove said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/28/ten.commandments/

disgusting...............

[donco6]

1. I heard they were talking about making it a roving . . .

. . . display.

I'm sure Colorado will be on the list, as far right as we are. ugh.

[kainah]

5. I wonder what the shipping charges are

for a 2.6 ton monument?

[WillyT]

2. LOL, Great Headline !!!

:bounce:

[TacticalPeek]

9. Headline award.

n/t

[David Zephyr]

3. The "Ten Commandments Monument" Is A "Graven Image"

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Fundies, If Any Man Have an Ear, Let Him Hear!

1.)Definition of a "graven image": "An idol or fetish carved in wood or stone." http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=graven%20image

2.)"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image," -- from the Ten Commandments.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. that assumes that they're actually worshipping the monument.

So far, I haven't heard any reports of the monument being treated as a god.

[David Zephyr]

7. The Commandment is Not to Make Graven Images.

It says that one should not make a graven image period. The "monument" is a graven image.

[CarlBallard]

4. Well if it violates federal law in Alabama, it must be ok in Mississippi

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[GBD4]

8. Civil War II?

Are Alabama and Mississppi going to jointly secede in the pursuit of preserving their religious culture?