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Ten Commandments meant for all people; Editorial twisted facts Your July 19 editorial about the Ten Commandments bordered on outrageous propaganda. You should return to school and read more about the founding of the United States. Study it. Understand what you read. Why don't you level with your readers and tell the truth? Is there much difference between placing the Ten Commandments in the courthouses and printing "In God We Trust" on our money? If this is really the opinion of most of your staff and readers, it is no wonder we have such low morals. You should be ashamed to permit one of your writers to include such putrid opinion in your paper. Your editorial bends, twists and mutilates the facts. You need help. T. Green Nashotah; Optional commandments? Your July 19 editorial on the Ten Commandments ("Courthouse no place for religion") left me appalled. Just which of the Ten Commandments should be optional behavior for citizens? Thou shalt not kill? Thou shalt not steal? Thou shalt not bear false witness (lie)? Thou shalt not commit adultery? Thou shalt not covet? Your last paragraph says it all for the liberal press: "Just don't force (these commandments) on others." I can't believe the Journal Sentinel would give citizens the option of complying with these edicts. James Dapp Oconomowoc; Put laws on church walls I agree with your editorial against posting the Ten Commandments in county courthouses. But I have a facetious suggestion. Let's allow the Christian Family Association to hang the Ten Commandments on the walls of all 72 Wisconsin county courthouses if it will allow the State of Wisconsin to hang 10 statutes of its choice on all Christian churches' walls. Fair is fair. Then, the churches not only will be in the government in order to gain control, which they ardently desire, but the government also will be in the churches, which they greatly fear and with good reason. All the benefits of theocracy will then ensue, namely: religious discrimination, religious bigotry, religious intolerance, religious persecution, religious wars and the death of religious liberty. Those would be the unintended but logical consequences of the inordinate desires of the right-wing Christian fundamentalists to breach the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. Clarence R. Reinders Marshfield
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I can only conclude by the shrill tone of your July 19 editorial
("Courthouse no place for religion") that you are either terribly
embarrassed by the thought of God or deeply ashamed of his
commandments. After several paragraphs of stunning sarcasm, which
struck me like a slap in the face, you claimed "there are no better
principles to live by" then these very laws. Is this more sarcasm
or simply hypocrisy? The law is meant for all peop...
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