With Judge Roy Moore suspended over his refusal to remove the Alabama Ten Commandments monument, Brad Edmonds, writing from on the ground in Alabama, suggests the two sides of the debate should flip-flop their positions:
...the federal courts should be pleased to have the 10 Commandments displayed in all courtrooms. It would help make the great masses more obedient, thereby enhancing government power and job security for judges. The same line of thinking goes for the SPLC, which though it claims to be in the business of thwarting "hate, intolerance and discrimination," is really about the business of using government courts to thwart property rights and freedom of association....
The Christians, for their part, should want the Commandments removed from the courthouse, and all reference to any religion removed from every aspect of government. First, the government, if it must exist, should be about the accomplishment of purely secular, practical, and limited matters. It should leave the business of religion to the experts....
Our return to the higher moral standards of old might thus be hastened if we all develop less faith, not more, in government as a moral guide. This would make it easier to begin working to get government out of the moral spheres it has already invaded and worsened. As to acknowledging God in public places: Shop owners, corporations, and property owners already can post the 10 Commandments, other Bible passages, and other uplifting things in view of the public. Surely, at least a few of the Christians protesting removal of the monument are in a position to do just this sort of thing.
It's certainly worth considering.
[UPDATE: Scrappleface reports that the Ten Commandments have been repealed, anyway.]
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