Hi there,
I am a great admirer of what Judge Roy Moore has done with your courthouse. Two tons of granite? Loving it! How classy a monument to our first laws and our Judeo-Christian heritage can you get?
The statue of the Ten Commandments inspires us to reverence for political life. And, I bet, keeps those crazy local teens off the drugs and premarital you-know-what. I understand it has inspired some actual pilgrimages. But I bet it doesn't meet all the needs of your citizens, which is why I have a modest proposal.
Let me erect a statue next to the Ten Commandments. I would love to submit to you an artist's rendering of it: imagine, a bronze statue of a young bull, covered in a lovely, shiny gold foil.
This statue would represent so much that is part of our Republic's daily life and heritage; it would show how our ancestors had to till the earth using oxen. It would represent our country's early days — so brash were we as a young democracy! So much power yet to come! It would hearken to our glorious fiscal heritage of so-called "bull-markets."
Most of all, it would connect to our Judeo-Christian heritage of ancient times, extolling the values that practically pre-date Judeo, much less Christian.
Also, the damn liberals can't do nothing about it because it could be Hindu. But it's not!
Yes, when I think about the problems of the world, I don't see how they can't be solved with a couple of statues — the Ten Commandments and a golden calf.
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I don’t think anyone has stopped to think that we’re talking about the Law of Moses, which as the story goes, God intended for the Jews. I love the ironic specter of the ACLU lined up against Judaism almost as much as I love the fact that right-wing Christians think the commandments were handed down to them. It’s almost too bad this case is so constitutionally bogus.
We’re such a consumer culture that we think every association is an endorsement and it’s made us far too damned intolerant. It’s pure social and political intolerance that keeps public schools from acknowledging Christmas and PBS from airing a show where a cartoon bunny visits a household headed up by lesbians. The founding fathers didn’t want churches running the government or the government deciding which church, if any, people needed to belong to. End of constitutional story. If it was against the law for the government to offend someone’s sensibilities, I’d have a hell of a class action suit going.
And don’t get me started on that right to maintain an armed militia thing…
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