Justice Update

The Plaintiffs have filed an en banc request to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. An en banc requests asks the 21 federal judges at the 10th Circuit Court to review the 3-judge panel ruling. The ruling was obviously 'faith' based and ignored their own previous rulings of the 10th Circuit Court about government proselytizing through the use of religious symbols.

Federal judges are appointed for life, paid reasonably well, and have no fear of losing their jobs. With this being the case one might think that the justice the judges swore to uphold would be the paramount thought in ruling decisions. Not their personal religious beliefs that might include the worshiping of an icon and ignoring the equity it previously represented.

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10th Circuit Court Opinion

On 12 September 2008 the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Denver, made an interesting ruling. The three-judge panel decided that sets of Latin crosses used by the City of Las Cruces as its symbol and the Las Cruces Public Schools similar symbol are non-religious. And that using the singular exclusive word 'religion' is OK instead of using the plural inclusive word 'religions' when discussing the teaching about religions in history and cultural geography classes. Since the litigation process is still on-going I will continue comments later.