Ten Commandments everywhere … thanks to ACLU!

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Photo credit: Project Moses
Interesting…

Thousands of stone Ten Commandments monuments on highly visible properties in communities across the nation, millions of smaller plaques in Christian and Jewish homes, and a massive bronze showing the biblical image of Moses holding the stones on which God wrote… The target of the ACLU? Nope. Thanks to the ACLU!

Joe Worthing, the executive director for Project Moses, says his organization, only a few years old, is well on its way to reaching many of its goals of placing Ten Commandments monuments all over the nation, and it’s because of a complaint from the ACLU.

The ministry was launched by John Menghini, an Overland Park, Kan., businessman, who was disturbed by a news story about the ACLU demanding and getting the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from a Kansas City courthouse.

The Kansas City story also noted the fate of the monument to which the ACLU objected: It was moved about 100 feet across the street to St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, so that it would be on private property and no longer subject to the whims of lawyers and judges, and a light clicked on for Menghini.

“The beauty of this move is that now, far more visitors to the courthouse actually view the Ten Commandments because it is more visible than it ever was on the courthouse grounds,” he said. “I thought, if every church and synagogue in America would proudly display God’s law, as this one church did, maybe our culture could turn a corner and come back to its Judeo-Christian roots.”

The result was Project Moses, which works to install 900-pound stone monuments to God’s Laws on church and other private properties in prominent civic locations across the country. Hundreds already are installed, as well as thousands of smaller stone plaques that are offered to families for their homes.

“The ACLU is not the problem [with removing the Ten Commandments from America],” Worthing told WND. “We need to send them a thank you. They awakened a sleeping giant.

“The problem has been the apathy of good citizens sitting on their hands and saying, ‘That’s happening in California or Boston, not in Omaha,’” he said.

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Posted by Jay on June 8, 2008 11:40 am

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One Response to “Ten Commandments everywhere … thanks to ACLU!”

  1. Jeff Molby on June 8th, 2008 12:10 pm

    That’s awesome. I wish them continued success in placing them on private property.

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