[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14883]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   PLACEMENT OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court once again has made complex 
that which is clear.
  In their decisions regarding placement of the Ten Commandments on 
public property, an alleged violation of the first amendment, their 
rulings are inconsistent. They have said that the Ten Commandments must 
be removed from those courthouses in Kentucky. On the same day, the 
same Supreme Court said that the Ten Commandments placed on the State 
Capitol grounds of Texas, that is okay.
  The Supreme Court, the Ten Commandments police, has created 
confusion, chaos and calamity. What if folks in Kentucky decide to 
remove those forbidden Ten Commandments from inside the courtrooms and 
place them on the courthouse grounds, is that permitted?
  Well, the chief of police of the Ten Commandments police, Justice 
David Souter, would be the one to decide because he ruled one way in 
one case and the opposite way in the other case.
  Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court ruling should be simple for all 
Americans to understand. The Ten Commandments are simple to understand. 
The 10 amendments to the Constitution are simple to understand. It is 
ironic that the same Supreme Court, policing the Ten Commandments 
throughout courthouses, in their own courtroom above their head, Moses 
holding the Ten Commandments. This ought not to be.

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