Posted 7/30/2002 07:20:00 AM by Douglas

So what's the biggest threat in the world today? Islamofascists? Our own government's responses to the attacks? The mercurial stock market?
No.
The real threat is the Ten Commandments on the capitol grounds in Austin.

Now Van Orden has lodged a protest of his own, filing a federal lawsuit seeking to remove the commandments monument on grounds that it violates constitutional separation of church and state.

Statements like this make me want to scream. Where in the Constitution does the phrase Church and State show up in the same paragraph with separation? No where.

Is the State of Texas claiming that the Ten Commandments is the law of God? I don't think so, but apparently that's what this guy's suit is about. Either that or he just wants his name in the paper.

Hell, the State isn't even saying you have to obey the dang things.

The first amendment prohibits the persecution of minority religions and prohibits a "state run" religion, like the Church of England. How is this keeping this guy from worshiping in any way he sees fit?

The fact that he has the freedom to file such a ridiculous lawsuit is proof enough that his freedoms aren't being threatened at all, and he's simply an opportunist with too much time on his hands.