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Keep Texas' Ten Commandments
Published by Joey Dauben on Feb 23, 2005
| 28 Signatures |
Target: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott
Region: United States of America
Web site: http://www.joeydauben.com
Background (Preamble):
Texas' capitol building grounds in Austin has a monument depicting the Ten Commandments on it -- on public property.
The Supreme Court will "rule" whether or not this is legal or not (more than likely, if Alabama & Roy Moore are a reminder, it will be "illegal"), so I've come up with an idea: students and concerned citizens who cherish our republican form of government who live in and around Ellis County, Texas (Waxahachie-county seat) must band together to fight for our U.S. Constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise thereof.
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that prohibits a state from displaying a Ten Commandments monument, just as there is not a restriction barring construction workers from having portable bathrooms in public.
This petition serves as a voice for those who believe that this is a free speech issue.
The Supreme Court will "rule" whether or not this is legal or not (more than likely, if Alabama & Roy Moore are a reminder, it will be "illegal"), so I've come up with an idea: students and concerned citizens who cherish our republican form of government who live in and around Ellis County, Texas (Waxahachie-county seat) must band together to fight for our U.S. Constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise thereof.
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that prohibits a state from displaying a Ten Commandments monument, just as there is not a restriction barring construction workers from having portable bathrooms in public.
This petition serves as a voice for those who believe that this is a free speech issue.
Petition:
Keep Texas' Ten Commandments monument ON public property!
The Keep Texas' Ten Commandments petition to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was written by Joey Dauben and is in the category Government at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: texas, commandments, public, monument, speech, property, county, free speech, public property, texas ten, keep texas, ten commandments monument
