Monday, June 27, 2005

Your Wish Is His Commandments

The Supreme Court made some decisions today about displaying the Ten Commandmants. I generally don't get too excited either way about the this issue. That is, until someone starts grossly misrepresenting things.

As Jim over at Abelog points out, those who contend that the Ten Commandments are appropriate for courthouses because they are the basis for our legal system (or some such) are full of it.

Look, by my count only two of the commandments (don't kill and don't steal) are solidly codified in law. It's not even illegal to lie in most instances. The two commandments that are covered in our legal system also happen to be tenants in almost every religion and legal system in the world and not peculiar to the Ten Commandments and our legal system. So, let's get off this argument that the big ten is also a legal document.

That's all I have to say.

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