Yesterday I gave you the Dobson Test, today I add the Perkins Proof:
If the FRC’s Tony Perkins is hoppping mad about something, it is a good thing.
One conservative group called the decision devastating.
“The Ten Commandments have played a crucial role in shaping the values and legal system of the United States and of all Western Civilization as is evident in many of the buildings here in Washington. In fact, the Supreme Court building itself boasts three different displays,” said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
“This ruling by the Supreme Court is not only denigrating to our culture but it undermines the very laws we already have in place. Forbidding the Ten Commandments opens the door to hostility toward religion, which is contrary to the free exercise clause of the 1st Amendment.
Perkins called the Kentucky ruling
JG
I think it was Snopes.com that had an article detailing all the supposed ten commandment displays and it turned out none of them were actually ten commandments displays.
RSA
“The Ten Commandments have played a crucial role in shaping the values and legal system of the United States and of all Western Civilization as is evident in many of the buildings here in Washington.
As is also evident in federal laws against polytheism, cursing, and adultery, for example. Oh, wait, I must be posting from a parallel universe.
As is evident in many of the buildings here in Washington? “In our next class we will discuss the influence of Corinthian columns on Western values over the past two centuries. . .”