World News and Trends- Displaying the Ten Commandments: enigma solved
Nothing seems so perplexing to both the U.S. Supreme Court and the American public than whether a display of the Ten Commandments on government property is legal and/or moral.
Nothing seems so perplexing to both the U.S. Supreme Court and the American public than whether a display of the Ten Commandments on government property is legal and/or moral. In recent history, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office for refusing to remove a stone monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
Supreme Court justices have refused to revisit issues raised by their 1980 decision that banned the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Recently, however, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings.
Enter irony: There's a large relief of Moses with the Ten Commandments inside the Supreme Court's courtroom, an imposing sculpture of Moses with the Ten Commandments in the center of the frieze on the rear facade of the Supreme Court building and a statue of Moses bearing the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Library of Congress next door.
God, in Psalm 119:19, provides a solution for this enigma: "Do not hide Your commandments from me."
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Good News Magazine: November - December 2004
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
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