The Ten Commandments and Control

Should the Ten Commandments be posted in our courthouses and other public places?

Lets put aside for a moment the fact that only four of the commandments are embodied in the law. Lets ignore the complex legal issues involving the first amendment and look at the question of “WHY”. Why do people want the Ten Commandments posted on public property?

Our system of justice is based on the Ten Commandments and therefore the Ten Commandments should be posted in our courthouses and other public places. Eighty percent of Americans are Christians so majority rule gives them the right to have their beliefs considered in legal proceedings. The separation of church and state is a scam perpetrated by the courts. Religious freedom. Moral justice. They are the word of God. Every one must be familiar with them. They need to be a part of all our dealings with one another.

Good reasons? But before we go posting them on everybody’s property lets post them at home, and at church and at our place of business and every other spot we possibly can. When is the last time you walked in to someone’s house and saw the Ten Commandments posted? For me it was about two minutes ago. They’re on my refrigerator, under the bill of rights. My wife wears them on her wrist; they’re on her watchband. But I don’t see then in a lot of places. Not on people's lawns, not on t-shirts or bumper stickers. I haven’t even seen them in any of the churches I've been in, much less on a sign outside. Why is it that if it is so majorly important that this information be in front of the public that hardly anyone wants it on their property but they want it on ours. You have the right to put them up on your property so do it already. I know of no case in which the courts have ruled you can’t put them up on your front door. Put a Ten Commandments bumper sticker on your car. And one on your living room window. Wear them round your neck. Then people will know how you feel and that speak for yourself instead of trying to be the voice of John Q Public. And if all the people who think it is so important to have them on sign down at the court house square put just one commandment on their rear window then we will all read them all everyday and we won’t need to see them in the jury box.

Or maybe all this protesting and gripping is just natural human perversity. People only want to put up the Ten Commandments is places where they've been told they can’t and that is really the only reason they think this so important.

OWL
Mar. 7, 2007