ACLU Loses Ten Commandments Case

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ACLU Loses Ten Commandments Case

about time someone stood up to these people

Thou shall not remove the Ten Commandments.

That’s the declaration from a federal district court – dismissing a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against Dixie County, Fla. and ending a six-year legal battle.

The ACLU sued the county after they allowed a private citizen to erect a six-ton monument of the Ten Commandments atop the steps of the courthouse.

A 75-year-old North Carolina man, who happens to be an ACLU member, objected to the monument – which led to the lawsuit.

Liberty Counsel represented the county and challenged the ACLU’s standing to bring a suit on behalf of a member who lives hundreds of miles away from the monument.”

Senior District Judge Maurice Paul dismissed the case after the ACLU admitted that their client did not plan to buy property in Dixie County and therefore lacks standing to sue.

In addition to dismissing the case, the ACLU will be responsible for several thousand dollars in court costs.

“This was a great victory,” Liberty Counsel Founder Mathew Staver told Fox News. “What it says about the bully tactics by the ACLU is that if you resist them, you can win.”

“The usual way they win is my intimidation or default – when the government officials cave in under the threat of a lawsuit,” Staver said.

The county had a policy that allowed private citizens to put up different kinds of displays – including the religious monuments.

Harry Mihet, senior litigation counsel for Liberty Counsel, said the ACLU got caught with its hands in the “constitutional cookie jar.”

“It’s prolonged campaign against the good citizens of Dixie County has come to a screeching halt,” he said. “In getting kicked out of court, the ACLU has learned that it cannot impose its San Francisco values upon a small town in Florida – using a phantom member from North Carolina.

The ACLU did not return calls seeking comment.

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[Psalm 51:17]

Not saying the courts did a bad thing here, but we are NOT under the law anymore, and in the age of grace, right?

This is my big gripe with all of this 10 commandments debate nonsense - why in the world are Christians wanting to putting this on open display(and defending it to the utmost) without saying a word over Jesus Christ's finished works on the cross, and being saved by his grace? It's as if they're leading themselves right into Satan's Hegelian Dialect trap.

Rom_3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom_3:28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Rom_4:15  Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Rom_6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

James_2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

2Tim 2:10  Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2Ti 2:11  It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
2Ti 2:12  If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.