The Ten Commandments Provide a Moral Code
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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The irony of lawsuits filed against a Louisiana bill.
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| 0:00.0 | With the Commandments. Headlines quickly reported the panic and the filed lawsuits, but is the idea |
| 0:14.6 | that far-fetched? Well, no, historically the Mosaic law is one of the first recorded |
| 0:19.2 | legal codes dating only a few hundred years after Hammurabi. |
| 0:22.8 | As State Representative Doty Horton explained, this is reason enough for the bill. |
| 0:27.0 | Quote, it doesn't preach a certain religion, she said, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is. |
| 0:34.3 | And of course America's history cannot be understood separate from the idea of a moral |
| 0:38.1 | law, this one in particular. |
| 0:40.1 | In fact, both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence appealed to it. |
| 0:44.0 | And in the end, it would certainly be ironic if a legal challenge to this new law would go to the US Supreme Court. |
| 0:50.0 | After all, on the east side of that building is Moses holding the 10 |
| 0:54.2 | Commandments. For the Coulson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
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