School Board Member Thinks Putting Up Ten Commandments Will Keep Board In Line
Edward Lilly, a retiring board member New York State’s Lewiston-Porter school district, wants to get religious displays in the district’s four schools before his term is up. He says “it’s not a religious thing.”
“I think placing the Ten Commandments in each of our buildings will keep the board from doing things they have done in the past,” said Lilly, who has less than one month left in his term.
The board wants to waste its time looking into this, when the Supreme Court has already ruled that displaying the Ten Commandments is “purely religious.”
School Superintendent R. Chris Roser also said he has concerns about displaying a religious text on school grounds. By including something from one religion, any other religion must be given the opportunity to be represented on school grounds, as well – no matter how extreme, he said.
In December 2007, for instance, a couple who objected to a Nativity scene being put up outside Olean City Hall put up a Wiccan pentacle beside it. That situation riled tempers and pitted friends against friends, and the Nativity scene was moved down the street from City Hall to the front of a Baptist church.
Once again we get into the government deciding which religions are acceptable. Once again, we have community elders thinking that displaying a religious symbol of their choosing is going to put people on the straight and narrow. When will they learn?
When will liberals learn that the Ten Comandments serve as the principle outline to our basic laws, or what our laws used to be.
What is so threatening about the Ten Commandments? If the country lived by these rules we wouldn’t have the problems we have today.
OldLefty Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
There are only 3 laws that are from the 10 commandments, and ALL religions AND atheists subscribe to them.
trees are people too Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Actually Lefty there are four……..
You shall not commit Murder.
You shall not commit Adultery.
You shall not Steal.
You shall not Lie.
A Covetous heart is the weakness of character that leads into temptation, and a covetous heart will eventually cause its owner to break all of the other Commandments………
Greedy desires lead all astray……………
OldLefty Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Adultry is in covered by the law.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Actually four if you want to include Commandment number nine.
OldLefty Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I’m talking about #6, #8, and #9.
BarryB Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I think there is more then 4 that is incorporated into laws.
#4 – Keep the Sabbath. This served as the basis for the “blue laws” in the South. Interestingly enough, the Union had incorporated this as a basis for the 5 day work week.
#5 – Honor your mother and father. This is really law meant for the heart. (actually all of them are!) It only saw manifestation in terms of the two holidays set aside to honor each parents.
#6 – Do not commit adultery. The consequences are covered in our laws.
#7 – Do not murder. Same
#8 – Do not bear false witness – lie
#9 – Do not steal
#10 – Do not covet. I agree that this is a heart law and its consequences are seen in our laws.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
The Ten Commandments are a strictly religious institution, and the American government is a secular institution. Even though I am a Christian, I don;t believe it is right to impose one’s views like that, especially in a government run program like a school.
average james Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Bingo !!!!
Give the man a prize !!
Ryan, I, like you, am a Christian. I am not in the least interested in a theocracy, and neither were our founders.
Kregg Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Well, I guess we’d better get out the sand blaster to remove “In God we trust” from all those govt buildings. And, how we gonna’ get the same saying off our coins…?
June 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
“I think placing the Ten Commandments in each of our buildings will keep the board from doing things they have done in the past…”
I think Mr. Lilly must have a financial interest in some company that manufactures religious displays of the so-called “Ten Commandments.” And he can take his religious dogma and stick it up his backhoe.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Dick “they will welcome us with flowers”, Cheny has some new rules that he created in his coven in the basement of the VP Cave…
June 8th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Ya know, this Edward Lilly might just be a real Joker, kind of like Condi the Incompetent putting the constitution up in any room that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, or Yoo slithered through, on your way OUT the door…
June 8th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
- Mark Twain
4moreyears Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Thanks Kregg! 2 tru
June 9th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Well, I guess we’d better get out the sand blaster to remove “In God we trust” from all those govt buildings. And, how we gonna’ get the same saying off our coins…?
And that dogon’ Declaration of Independence
Pesky pesky founding documents! Sheesh.
Kregg Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Just reading these two paragraphs runs shivers up my spine…
TDro319 Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Then maybe you and Pino should get a room.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:09 am
The board wants to waste its time looking into this, when the Supreme Court has already ruled that displaying the Ten Commandments is “purely religious.”
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actually the supreme court pussy footed around the controversy by issuing simultaneous decisions that disallowed most displays, but gave a caveat that allowed the supreme court building to not have to sandblast their own building (and other buildings) that has a display of the Ten commandments, as well as not having to redesign all currency etc…
It was an astoundingly hypocritical duo of decisions.
For the record, I don’t think it matters if schools have displays of the ten commandments from a logical standpoint kids aren’t nearly as stupid as we make them out to be, from a legal standpoint I understand why they shouldn’t be.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:11 am
“…kids aren’t nearly as stupid as we make them out to be…”
Kids, by and large, are at least as stupid as their parents, regardless of how clever they may be with the latest gizmo from Best Buy.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Rocky, do you think History classes should not say anything about religion? In discussing the middle east would you rather schools not be able to mention God, Allah, or names of major religions.
There is definitely a two edged sword of hypocrisy if you want to completely de-religionize schools. It isn’t feasible, appropriate, or honest to the students.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Where does truth come from?
Is it self existent?
Does it exist independently apart from ourselves?
Do we apprehend truth?
Or is truth entirely subjective and open to interpretation?
Is truth a man made illusion?
Is truth just a concept?
Or is truth tangible and real….. and is truth universal?
Is there a truthful standard?
Does the standard change, or is it’s value fixed?
If there is no “truth”, then there is no right and wrong, there just is…………
If there is no truth, then why do you have a conscience?
What exactly is truth?
June 9th, 2009 at 5:10 am
He should move to Alabama. They wear them as a pin on their lapels. Very christian chic.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm