| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/07/01, 11:51 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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That's what American Atheists decided after challenging the installation of a Ten Commandments monument in front of the Bradford County courthouse.
The New Jersey-based group planned to unveil its own monument to atheism Saturday next to the Ten Commandments monument, and they believe it's the first of its kind to be placed on
government property. And the atheist group plans to keep putting them up
as long as Christian groups keep putting up Ten Commandments monuments.
"We're not going to let them do it without a counterpoint," said David Silverman, the group's president. "If we do it without a counterpoint it's going to appear very strongly that the government
actually endorses one religion over another, or - I should say -religion in general over non-religion.
"American Atheists sued to try to have the stone slab with the Ten Commandments removed from the
courthouse lawn in this conservative, rural north Florida town best known for the prison that confines death row inmates. The Community Men's Fellowship erected the monument in what's described as a free speech zone. During mediation on the case, the group was told it could have its own monument, too.So the atheists said OK.
What's being unveiled Saturday is a 1,500-pound granite bench that will include
quotes from Thomas Jefferson, as well as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams
and Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists. It will
also include a list of Old Testament punishments for violating the Ten
Commandments, including death and stoning.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013....ink=cpy
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