Bad Tidings For Roy Moore
The US Supreme Court has refused to overturn a decision by a US appeals court in Chicago which "[...]held the Ten Commandments contained an inherently religious text, and that the monument amounted to an endorsement of religion by the state.

As you should know, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore stuck a privately financed, multi-ton hunk of granite in the main lobby of the State Supreme Court building soon after being elected, and has been daring anyone to remove it. The big rock has a big copy of the Ten Commandments on top, along with some other quotes about the role of God in law all around it. With the latest decision, the precedents are running agin' Jedge Mo'.

You know, I'm pretty conservative and I am a religious man. In fact, my own personal beliefs are way to the right of the mainstream of what passes for Modern Christianity. But I also know that somewhere in the Good Book, it says to beware of the Pharisees, who "bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues..."

I wouldn't dare call Roy Moore a Pharisee--someone much more adept at it has already beat me to it. Personally, I don't have a problem with a big hunk of rock with writing on it. I have a problem with people who can't be bothered to live the words written on it.
posted by Terry at 4:57:00 PM