Comments on: The Ten Commandments Lawsuits: Successfully Eroding the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/08/24/the-ten-commandments-lawsuits-successfully-eroding-the-free-exercise-clause-of-the-first-amendment/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Otshine http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/08/24/the-ten-commandments-lawsuits-successfully-eroding-the-free-exercise-clause-of-the-first-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-9083 Mark Otshine Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:04:37 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/the-ten-commandments-lawsuits-successfully-eroding-the-free-exercise-clause-of-the-first-amendment/#comment-9083 I don't think this whole affair would have caught the attention of the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State if it weren't for the fact that Chief Justice Moore was "exercising his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion" at a government job, on government property. "No one really believes that an obscure monument of the Ten Commandments represents government establishing one religion and prohibiting others," writes Rachel Alexander. Oh no? If the judge did exactly the same thing, but the "obscure" monument contained religious rules of the Aztecs, would Rachel Alexander really find his stance acceptable? I'm sure the followers of the Persian god Mithras had some good rules too. Would Ms. Alexander honestly feel OK with her trial opening with a few Mithraic prayers? Come on! No religion of any sort in our government is best. One last thing: why is it that people of a right-wing economic bent are imagined so much in our society to be right-wing when it comes to moral values? Why is there not room for a party representing those with right-wing moral values and what are considered left-wing economic values? I would like to hear from others who have opinions on why economics and moral values have been slotted into two spheres in this way. Cheers, Mark O. I don’t think this whole affair would have caught the attention of the ACLU and Americans
United for the Separation of Church and State if it weren’t for the fact that Chief Justice
Moore was “exercising his First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion” at a government
job, on government property.
“No one really believes that an obscure monument of the Ten Commandments represents
government establishing one religion and prohibiting others,” writes Rachel Alexander. Oh no?
If the judge did exactly the same thing, but the “obscure” monument contained religious rules
of the Aztecs, would Rachel Alexander really find his stance acceptable? I’m sure the followers of
the Persian god Mithras had some good rules too. Would Ms. Alexander honestly feel OK with her
trial opening with a few Mithraic prayers? Come on! No religion of any sort in our government is
best.

One last thing: why is it that people of a right-wing economic bent are imagined so much in our
society to be right-wing when it comes to moral values? Why is there not room for a party
representing those with right-wing moral values and what are considered left-wing economic
values? I would like to hear from others who have opinions on why economics and moral values
have been slotted into two spheres in this way.

Cheers,
Mark O.

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