SCOTUS gets it exactly right
After the U.S. Supreme Court's property rights debacle last week, it's about time they broke out of their slump.
They did, in two separate rulings on the issue of the display of the Ten Commandments on public property- rulings which dealt with two entirely different issues, however puzzling some liberals and media types profess to find them.
The Court ruled that the Commandments may not be displayed as a symbol of sectarian religion, but may be displayed in their role as forebear of the entire Western legal tradition.
Only a fanatic, a bigot, or someone with absolutely no sense of history could object to the latter. Only a non-believer in the First Amendment could object to the former. The decisions are not "confusing," as MSNBC has been insisting all day. Rather, they're a precise and logical parsing of the two completely seperate issues involved.
They did, in two separate rulings on the issue of the display of the Ten Commandments on public property- rulings which dealt with two entirely different issues, however puzzling some liberals and media types profess to find them.
The Court ruled that the Commandments may not be displayed as a symbol of sectarian religion, but may be displayed in their role as forebear of the entire Western legal tradition.
Only a fanatic, a bigot, or someone with absolutely no sense of history could object to the latter. Only a non-believer in the First Amendment could object to the former. The decisions are not "confusing," as MSNBC has been insisting all day. Rather, they're a precise and logical parsing of the two completely seperate issues involved.
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