Ten Commandments Monument Issues

Catching up... this item references an ACLJ e-newsflash that I received on 9/26/06, titled: Ban the Ten Commandments? What's Next?

The ACLJ has seen fit to warn me:

Your freedom to express your faith is under renewed attack by the ACLU.

Its apparent mission: to wipe any trace of religion off the face of government property and the public square in America.

The newsflash details several court cases that the ACLJ is working on right now pertaining to Ten Commandments monuments:

A Kentucky case, ACLU vs. Garrard County, KY: the Sixth Circuit Court says (according to ACLJ), "that in a similar (uncited) case last fall, the Sixth Circuit ruled in our favor. The court found in favor of our argument and noted that the ACLU's ''repeated reference to 'the separation of church and state''' was ''tiresome''... The Sixth Circuit Court determined, 'The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.'"

Well, that's just frickin' great. Some conservative activist judges find it "tiresome" to talk about church/state separation. This is appalling, incredibly arrogant, and frightening.

While the language of the First Amendment is not "demanding," (as, say, a toddler at the grocery store who wants a lollipop is "demanding")--the words seem pretty clear to me. And if we have a question about them, we can reference Thomas Jefferson's actual letter, written in 1801, to the Danbury Baptist Association--wherein Jefferson references the First Amendment to *support* his belief that the Constitution *does* "demand" a "wall of separation between church and state!

If I have to choose between the Sixth Circuit Court or Thomas Jefferson... uh, I'll take Jefferson.

The e-newsflash goes on to reference a couple of other Utah cases where New Age groups are either trying to get equal access for their monuments, or fighting against "sleight of hand" by Judeo-Christian interests trying to keep Ten Commandments monuments from going away.

I've been wondering something for quite a while: why don't we see Ten Commandments monuments on the front lawns of every Christian church in the United States? They could put up their monuments *there*, tons of people would see them as they drove by every day, and (though I would find the monuments annoying, personally) nobody could say a darn thing about it!

I guess the Christians in those churches are just too cheap to pay for the monuments themselves, out of pocket... but seemingly, in their view, it's all right to use our tax money for them.

That's just sooooo conservative, isn't it.