Topics in the News: Ten Commandments
Rick Perry on Principles & Values
: Feb 11, 2011
Unelected judges shouldn't tell us when & where we can pray
The American people are fed up with bureaucrats telling them how to live their lives calling the shots on the healthcare insurance they must buy and unspooling more red tape than anyone can handle.They are also fed up with unelected judges telling the
when and where they can pray or observe the Ten Commandments.
This simmering frustration erupted in an overwhelming landslide of conservative voices on election night including members of that new, legitimate force the TEA Party movement.
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Source: Speech at 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference
Sarah Palin on Principles & Values
: Nov 23, 2010
Fought each Xmas as mayor to keep Jesus manger in Wasilla
When I was mayor of Wasilla, I had to fight for six Christmases to keep the baby Jesus manger scene on display on Wasilla Lake. And the Ten Commandments are becoming harder to find in American courthouses than unicorns.
Most Americans are honestly puzzled about why these religious displays are so darn controversial. The fact is that these challenges reflect more than just theoretical, legal, and constitutional differences.
They are evidence of a profound cultural divide. According to a 2008 Pew poll, 92% of Americans believe in
God or a universal spirit, and more than half of us pray at least once a day. And yet we have an influential academic and legal elite that not only fails to share this belief, but seems actively hostile to it.
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Source: America by Heart, by Sarah Palin, p.210
Sarah Palin on Principles & Values
: Nov 23, 2010
Elites in "lame stream media" consider Americans alien
What is threatening about the Ten Commandments, a moral code that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, the religions that account for 97% of all Americans believers, recognizes as the basis for living a good life? Why can't people just live and let live?
Part of the answer is the cultural divide between our governing elites and the mass of the American people. Most of those who write for the mainstream media and teach at universities and law schools don't share the religious faith of their fellow
Americans. They seem to regard people who believe in God and regularly attend their church or synagogue as alien beings, people who are "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command," as the Washington Post once famously put it.
Perhaps for this and other obvious reasons, I often refer to the conventional press as the "lame stream media." The truth is that we ARE alien--to them.
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Source: America by Heart, by Sarah Palin, p.215
Ron Paul on Government Reform
: Sep 17, 2007
Disallow lawsuits that stop public officials invoking God
Q: Would you support the Constitution Restoration Act that prevents federal courts from hearing lawsuits brought to stop public officials from acknowledging God in such ways as the Pledge of Allegiance, public display of the Ten Commandments, & public
prayer?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
HUNTER: At the first Constitutional Convention in 1787, they began each session with a prayer with the supplication to God.
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Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Mike Huckabee on Principles & Values
: Jun 1, 2007
Ten Commandments are basis for appropriate behavior
As a teenager, I often would hear my pastor say, “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” Corporate leaders, political leaders, church leaders, and families are at their best when they are motivated by principles. What are some
principles worth living by? Ask a roomful of people, and you will get a roomful of answers. There already exists a code of principles established thousands of years ago & adhered to by people from a variety of religious backgrounds. It has been accepted
as a basis for appropriate behavior. Fortunately, no one has copyrighted the Ten Commandments.
Although some attempts have been made to prohibit these principles from being displayed, they have survived through the ages. They are the foundation of
our laws and commonly accepted codes of human behavior.
The Ten Commandments are divided into two sections--the vertical laws dealing with man’s relationship with God and the horizontal laws dealing with man’s relationship with others.
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Source: Character Makes a Difference, by Mike Huckabee, p. 74-75
Rudy Giuliani on Education
: May 2, 2007
Supports Ten commandments & prayer in schools
Giuliani made an issue of “The Holy Virgin Mary,” a Sensation painting [exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum] that used, among other materials, elephant dung to depict the mother of Christ. The mayor promptly denounced the exhibit as hate speech against
Catholics and vowed to defund and close down the museum. The museum immediately sued on First Amendment grounds. Giuliani’s jihad made political hay, attacking
Hillary’s support of what he termed obscene and blasphemous museumology: “She agrees with using public funds to bash the Catholic religion,” the mayor said.
Giuliani had employed a direct-mail guru who specialized in creating appeals tailored to
religious zealots. He also came out for prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Yet Giuliani’s crusade got weak support locally. Even Catholics in the city gave the mayor short shrift, by 48% to 42%.
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Source: America‘s Mayor, America‘s President?, by R. Polner, p.127
Newt Gingrich on Civil Rights
: Dec 31, 2006
Five justices banned school prayer against American majority
The views by the media-academic-legal elite are completely at odds with the overwhelming majority of Americans. Once five justices decided we could not pray in schools or at graduation or could not display the Ten Commandments, we lost those rights.
If five justices decide we cannot say that our nation is “under God,” then we will also lose that right. They are not only arbitrarily rewriting the law of the land but are usurping the legitimate rights of the legislative branch to make the laws.
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Source: Rediscovering God in America, by Newt Gingrich, p.132-133
Barack Obama on Families & Children
: Oct 1, 2006
Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line
Today, white evangelical Christians are the heart and soul of the Republican Party’s grassroots base. It is their issues-abortion, gay marriage, prayer in schools, intelligent design, Terri Schiavo, the posting of the Ten Commandments in the courthouse,
home schooling, voucher plans, and the makeup of the Supreme Court-that often dominate the headlines and serve as one of the major fault lines in American politics. The single biggest gap in party affiliation is between those who attend church regularly
and those who don’t. Democrats, meanwhile, are scrambling to “get religion,” even as a core segment of our constituency remains stubbornly secular, and fears that the agenda of an assertively Christian nation may not make room for them or their life
choices. The evangelists’ success points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.
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Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p.201-2
Mark Sanford on Education
: Nov 1, 2002
Endorses teacher-led prayer & displaying Ten Commandments
Indicate which principles you support regarding education. - Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
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Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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Source: 2002 S.C. Gubernatorial National Political Awareness Test
Mike Huckabee on Education
: Nov 1, 2002
Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools
Indicate which principles you support regarding education. - Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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Source: 2002 AR Gubernatorial National Political Awareness Test
Herman Cain on Civil Rights
: Feb 1, 2002
Amendment to protect the sacred institution of marriage
[Reacting to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that allowed for same-sex marriage]: The courts have failed the American people. Congress needs to enact a constitutional amendment to protect the sacred institution of marriage. Liberal-minded
judges have opened a floodgate of judicial tyranny that will chip away at the core values of this country until nothing sacred is left! It started with not allowing prayer in schools, not being able to display the Ten Commandments, attempting to take
God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and now making same-sex marriages legal.A constitutional amendment is needed to protect the definition of marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman. If we don't act now all states could be forced to accep
same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts. We cannot allow this to happen! The long-term effects will further destroy the moral fabric of our society. Congress needs to take action on instituting a constitutional amendment to defend marriage now.
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Source: Herman's Column Archive, North Star Writer's Group
Mike Huckabee on Principles & Values
: Oct 1, 2000
10 Commandments: principles to live by, not just pop culture
Corporate leaders, political leaders, church leaders, and families are at their best when they are motivated by principles rather than public opinion. What are some principles worth living by? There already exists a code of principles established
thousands of years ago and adhered to by people from a variety of religious backgrounds. It has been accepted as a basis for appropriate behavior. Fortunately, no one has copyrighted the Ten Commandments.Although some attempts have been made to
prohibit these principles from being displayed, they have survived through the ages. They are the foundation for most of our laws and commonly accepted code of human behavior.
A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment
is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls. This would be like repairing an appliance by holding it against a mirror rather than reading the directions to determine how it should be performing.
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Source: Living Beyond Your Lifetime, by Mike Huckabee, p. 22-26