Isn’t it an interesting statement by the Supreme Court that the Ten Commandments can be displayed in some places, but not others (namely courthouses)? In other words, go ahead and display them in places where laws are made, but don’t put them where we will interpret the law (we’re going to write our own law anyway).
The court said the key to whether a display is constitutional hinges on whether there is a religious purpose behind it. But the justices acknowledged that question would often be controversial.
What I want to know is where it says in any document of rule in our country that says secularism trumps religion. It certainly didn’t when this country was formed, so why does it now? Why does secularism always have free reign in a nation of religious people?
In sharply worded opinions, Justice
Antonin Scalia said a “dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority” was denying the Ten Commandments’ religious meaning. Religion is part of America’s traditions, from a president’s invocation of “God bless America” in speeches to the national motto “In God we trust.”“Nothing stands behind the court’s assertion that governmental affirmation of the society’s belief in God is unconstitutional except the court’s own say-so,” Scalia wrote.
Read that again: “nothing stands behind the court’s assertion.” The funny thing is that this leaves things more muddled than ever before.
“It means we’ll litigate cases one at a time for decades,” said Douglas Laycock, a church-state expert at the University of Texas law school, noting the decisions provide little guidance beyond the specific facts of the cases. “The next case may depend on who the next justice is, unfortunately,” he said.
It’s scary to think where our nation will be once God is removed from all public life. Future generations will look at this Supreme Court as the 2nd generation of forefathers — and foolish ones at that.
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