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  Msg  : 8                                          Written : 06/13/94 05:20pm
  From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR                        Status  :                 
  To   : ALL                                                                  
  Subj : 10 Commandments Law                                                  

                      THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

     The Supreme Court of the United States has just refused to review
the case of _Cobb County v. Harvey,_ (S. Ct. 93-1721). In that case, the
11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with a lower federal district
court that a plaque of the Ten Commandments had to be removed from a
wall (across from the traffic courtrooms) in the Cobb Country State
Court Building in Marietta, Georgia.
     The plaque had been there for twenty-seven years, so it was about
time. It was in the 1960s that the Fraternal Order of the Eagles (FOE)
began putting both plaques and marble monoliths either in court houses
and city/county buildings, or on their lawns. Each sported the Ten
Commandments, two stars of David, an ancient Hebraic alphabet and the
name of the FOE donors. Challenged once before in Utah, the federal
district court there upheld the display of the Ten Commandments and the
10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed.
     So - there - we have it. The tenth circuit court approves of
such displays in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and
Oklahoma, but the eleventh circuit court disapproves of such displays in
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.  And the Supreme Court of
the United States (which has refused to review either circuit court
decision) has carved on its outside walls a  relief of Moses standing
with two large stone tablets on which are written (by the finger of god)
the Ten Commandments.



THEIST_WATCH
  Msg  : 27                                         Written : 07/03/94 07:24pm
  From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR                        Status  :                 
  To   : ALL                                                                  
  Subj : Atlanta's 10 Commandments                                            

                   GEORGIA 10 COMMANDMENT PROTESTS

    You would think that folks this god-fearing would have some respect
for the law. But apparently the word of the Supreme Court isn't enough
to make Atlanta residents keep church out of government.

    On May 31, the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court ruling
that a Ten Commandments plaque in the Cobb Country Courthouse was
unconstitutional. The Cobb County Commission had sent 2 1/2 years
fighting for the right to keep the religoius display.

    Now three local chuches plan to distribute 50,000 copies of the Ten
Commandments in order to counter the decision. The 11 by 14-inch posters
will include a tear-off reply card with the address of the American
Rights Coalition, a Tennessee-based anti-abortion hot line. It will be
accompanied by information on starting local "Ten Commandments
campaigns."



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