by James Glaser
March 3, 2005

And just how much do you think it costs us to have some case come before the Supreme Court? You know that any question that makes it that far has already cost us a bundle because it has been to several courts on the way.

I don't know the particulars to this case, except it is another one of those cases that someone wants to have the Ten Commandments displayed on Public Land. Here I think it is the Texas Capitol and a couple of Kentucky Courthouses.

I didn't know this until today, but there are many different Ten Commandments. Catholics have one, as do the Jews, Protestants, and there are probably many others, so one question before the court is, if you pick one over the others, does that mean the government endorses that particular religion?

I know growing up, "my" Commandments said, "Thou Shall Not Kill" and now people tell me that theirs says, "Thou Shall Not Murder." There is a world of difference between those two Commandments.

I like the idea of separation of Church and State. If somebody or some church wants to display their Ten Commandments, well it seems pretty simple to me. They can buy a piece of private land near the courthouse, pay taxes on it and put up their Commandments for all to see.

In 1980, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional that Kentucky made a law requiring the posting of the Commandments in each school classroom. The case was, Stone v. Graham 1980, if you want to look it up.

Hey, if you read the Bible, and yes, there are different Bibles out there too, but if you want to look it up, there are two versions of the Commandments in the Bible. The "original ones were given to Moses twice, because he smashed the first set when he got mad at the people for making a god out of gold to pray to. Both versions are very different. So which version is the United States Supreme Court going to ordain as the TRUE, 10 Commandments?

Here is the deal as I see it. This whole case is pretty mush a waste of the courts time and our money. Most Americans could not tell you what the ten commandments say and most Americans do not keep many of them or most of them. We should be working on other things rather that a display of one particular church's law. I think if we took the money we are spending on this case and helped some of the thousands of homeless children in this country, Jesus would bless us. We as a nation are not even doing the very basic stuff, like loving our neighbors. Lets work of stuff like that and after we all become real "good' we can start worrying about making displays of the rules we live by, besides that, who the heck will read these Commandments in a court house or on the lawn of one. If you want to put them some place, then put them up near a prison.

When we start arresting people because they didn't honor their father or mother, then we should think about putting these rules out for people in court to see.

You have to know that every other problem in America has been solved if we have the time and money to worry about things like this.