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To: LindyBill who wrote (3343)	11/26/2002 7:30:53 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 6901

I am presently reading Joseph J. Ellis' Founding Brothers, and I wonder what the Founders would think of not only the Ten Commandments being put into a courthouse, but the Pledge of Allegiance itself, as it was when it was written in 1892, or as it was amended in 1954 with the addition of the "under God" phrase. One knows, of course, what Jefferson would have thought (he would have been against the monument and against the "under God phrase" but also as an anti-Federalist probably against the Pledge itself.) And, for all his failings, Jefferson had the finest conscience of the Founders. For all the failings of the Catholic Church, I think we finally figured out that it's better to keep religion out of politics although in Catholic countries like Ireland you can't keep the priests from meddling. At any rate, you don't see the Catholics pushing Christianity into public places in the US. All that being said, I don't see the harm of this particular monument. Would throwing in the Code of Hammurabi and the Twelve Tables of Rome have made it more acceptable?

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