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Christian pastors from the Houston area say their faith is not affected, nor will the ultimate outcome be changed, by the loss of a monument that contained a Bible in their city."Enemies of Christianity have been trying to silence the church for 2,000 years and remove the Bible from influence for a millennium," the pastors said in a statement after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not reconsider the case."The fact is that the simple removal of one Bible from a relatively obscure display will not make the Bible less accessible to the people...We trust in a God who will not be silenced by legal decree," they said.The monument holding a Bible had been on the grounds of Houston's county courthouse. But its presence was challenged by a lawsuit, which resulted in a local judge's ruling to remove the book, a divided appellate court conclusion, and the recent refusal by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.The statement came from Dave Welch, executive director for the Houston Area Pastors Conference, which has been working to defend the Bible.The dispute was over the monument that was installed in the 1950s in honor of William Mosher, the founder of Star of Hope Mission. It stood for years without controversy, but after it was damaged, then repaired in the 1990s, an atheist alleged it was a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause...To read more go to:
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