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10 Commandments

The Ten Commandments should not be allowed to be posted in United States Government buildings. The Ten Commandments are a Judaic set of laws that according to their religious history was handed down from God to the prophet Moses. I believe these postings harm our county, its image of religious freedom, and it violates American citizen’s first amendment right. The three main reasons I believe that they should not be allowed is that it promotes a state-endorsed religion, it promotes religious intolerance and it creates an uncomfortable environment for people of other faiths.
State-endorsed Religion
The first reason I am against the postings is that it creates a state-endorsed religion. A state-endorsed religion is where a government that while it does not make one religion law it still bases a majority of its laws on secular views. If the US Government were allowed to post the Ten Commandments in all its institutions than what is to stop them from enforcing these religious......


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