Resolution Passed
Alone among nations, America was born in
pursuit of an idea - that a free people with diverse ideas and
beliefs could govern themselves in peace, and, whereas For more than a century,
America has spared no effort to defend and promote that idea around the world,
and, whereas
America has two major political-parties with
both having leadership with common ideas on many issues and diverse ideas on
how to make America great again and how that can be done in this global world,
and, whereas
Many, Southern states, including Georgia, for decades elected Governors, U.S.
Senators, Congresspersons, State Senators and Representatives etc. to office
that ran in elections and were in fact elected as Democrats, and, whereas
In recent years some elected to
office as Democrats afterwards changed parties when and where it was convenient
for them and the Republican Party, and, whereas
Due to the death of a Georgia
Senator, Paul Coverdell, a great Democrat Governor Roy Barnes appointed former
Governor Zell "Zig Zag" Miller to replace him as a Democrat Senator
from Georgia to serve the unexpired term, and, whereas
Senator Miller then offered to run for election as the "Democrat" and
was elected by those who had supported him for years in his election for L1. Governor
and then for two (2) terms as Governor, and, whereas
Senator Miller had in years past aspired to go to Washington on at least two
occasions running for Congress and the U.S. Senate against Phil Landrum: and
U.S. Senator Tallmadge. He lost in both but had the support of those he has now
turned his back on, and, whereas The Democrat party supported the change from
one term for election to Governor to permit two- four year terms making it
possible for him and the two prior Democrat Governors to serve two four year
terms, and, whereas
Governor Miller, as Keynote Speaker at a Democrat Convention, made a great
speech for a great Democrat President being elected. In part he stated he was a
Democrat and "we all" can't be born rich, handsome, and lucky. That
is why we have a Democrat Party and it represents the everyday working people
of our country. We "the Democrat Party" will fight your fight, we
will ease your burden, we will carry your cause, and, whereas
For eight years under President Clinton that happened and at the end of eight
years, the economy was good, a surplus was left and we were not in a specified
war. (That resulted by President Bush Sr. being defeated.) Then Governor Miller
in his speech told
Zell Miller was opposing the issues that he had said "the everyday working
people needed." He joined the Republicans am! many issues that were
against the working people. He wrote a "stupid book" against the party
of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton. So he became rich,
he became a Republican, and, whereas
He was Keynote Speaker at the Republican Convention in New York, the Georgia
Republican convention in Columbus, Georgia, and formed the "Democrats for
Bush." Zell Miller had praised John Kerry as a great hero, a great
senator, and a great veteran as a Key Note Speaker at the Democratic JJ Dinner
just three years before and then turned on him for President.
Therefore, with Zell Miller's rejection of the Party that made him, the Party
that made it possible for him to go to
now or in the future as a "Democrat. To us he is a Democrat no more. He
just don't get it.
Thank you, Herb Butler
READERS
WRITE
Ed
Buckner, Thomas Nelson, Maria Wilson, Marc Wilson, Erin Renfroe, Dave Powell,
Tyrone D. Scott, Paul J. Niesse, Jane Rogers - For
the Journal-Constitution
Monday, March 7, 2005
Ten
Commandments: Responses to Zell Miller's op-ed article, "Rules for life
ought to be in full view," @issue, March 4
Supporters make
hypocritical stance
Zell Miller
just doesn't get it. What is wrong with putting the Ten Commandments in public
places is that they're not Christian churches or Jewish synagogues. The Ten
Commandments is a religious document relevant to specific religions. It is not
the Georgia or the U.S. Code of Law.
Miller and
other politicians pushing this public display don't understand the Ten
Commandments. Why else would the Bush administration --- with his support ---
send troops to kill and be killed in an unjustifiable war? "Thou shalt not
kill" is central to the Commandments.
MARIA WILSON,
It's about
religion, not history
While the
religious extremists claim displaying the Ten Commandments is about history,
those of us who want religious liberty know it is about religion.
The Ten
Commandments and Judeo-Christian ideas certainly have a place in our history.
The displays in the U.S. Supreme Court building accurately and properly allude
to that, with Moses among friezes depicting dozens of influences --- including
Mohammed, Solon, Hammurabi, Confucius, Napoleon and others --- on our laws. But
nowhere in or on the building is to be found any version of the text of the Ten
Commandments. If the court were asked to approve displays similar to what is
present in its own courtroom, the justices undoubtedly would unanimously agree.
Those demanding
the right to post the Ten Commandments violate at least two of them as they
pretend to honor history: They want a graven image made, and they bear false
witness in trying to impose their religious beliefs on others.
ED BUCKNER
Buckner, of
With Zell, we
know what we're gonna get
I thought old
Zig Zag was gone, but then I saw his article pandering to the religious right.
Since he's not
running for office anymore, he should give it up. Oh, well, stupid is as stupid
does, and that is all I have to say about that.
THOMAS NELSON,
Alpharetta
State
government: Responses to Jim Wooten's column, "Thinking right,"
@issue, March 4
'Right to know'
is just wrong
Jim Wooten says
that opponents of the Woman's Right to Know Act "think it's
unnecessary." In fact, many of us oppose the law because it's draconian.
How else to describe a law that requires a woman who has been raped and
impregnated by her father to notify the rapist before getting an abortion? Or a
law that has been shown in other states not to reduce the overall number of
abortions, but rather to increase the number of highly unsafe illegal
abortions?
Conservatives
like Wooten are forever pledging their commitment to keeping the government out
of citizens' lives and allowing people to make their own choices. Laws like
these show just how shallow that commitment is.
MARC WILSON,
Conyers
http://www.ajc.com/friday/content/epaper/editions/friday/opinion_2472ef6660fc403600d0.html
Why the AJC
keeps printing Zell’s lying cranky rants
TEN
COMMANDMENTS: Rules for life ought to be in full view
Zell
Miller - For the Journal-Constitution
Friday, March 4, 2005
I just don't get what is so complicated and controversial about
displaying the Ten Commandments in a public place.
We don't have a
problem with "no smoking" signs at gas pumps. We don't have a problem
with a "sharp curve" warning sign on a steep mountain road or a
"school crossing" and flashing lights near a school.
We have a history of appreciating things that are posted for
our well being and the protection of others. Often, we complain when we are not
warned. Why is this so different?
[emphasis
added]To deny the posting of the Ten Commandments is to deny that we ever need
reminding on how to live a better life.
Who could argue
with: don't steal, don't lie and don't kill? [emphasis
added] What respectable and peace-loving faith could quarrel with such basic
blocks of character?
Yes, following
the Ten Commandments makes us better Christians, but following them also makes
us better Americans, better neighbors and better people.
There is an impressive carving on the beautiful marble walls
of the U.S. Supreme Court in
It is the
perfect display for the highest court in our land, for it was the Ten
Commandments that provided the foundation of not only our moral law but our
judicial law as well.
"Rules not
only for action but for the government of the heart" was how President
John Quincy Adams once described them.
How can those
Supreme Court justices, who see and I hope live by the commandments every day,
rule that it is unconstitutional to display them in a public place? Isn't it
right there in front of their noses?
Larger than
life, Moses is shown displaying them in one of the most public places in our
nation's capital. So why not in schoolrooms or city halls or courthouses?
The Ten
Commandments should never have become a political issue. Can you imagine how
silly it would seem if our Founding Fathers could hear us arguing about whether
we have the constitutional right to hang the Ten Commandments on our public
walls?
Who could ever
have imagined that this would happen in the
But I also
think it is less important to display the Ten Commandments than it is to obey
the Ten Commandments.
"Display
and obey" is how I would sum it up. It's easy to support the Ten
Commandments. It's a hard struggle to live the Ten Commandments. And if we
don't live by them, our support won't matter anyway. It may even hurt.
Zell Miller is
a former