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Now that the great justices have ruled, now that the great law has come down from the mount, and the people have been enlightened, we humbly bow before the prevailing wisdom of our betters. Thankfully, the supreme court has saved us from such abuses as jailbirds and lawyers being forced to see a copy of that higher law when they enter a courtroom.

Of course i mean any other courtroom than their own. The room the justices sit in to hear cases has, not one, not two, not three, but four, yes, FOUR carved images of the Ten Commandments.

The first image is to the top right as facing the chief justices seat, and is Moses standing with the Ten Commandments in his hands, a relief carving done in the finest marble. The second is directly above the chief justices head, and the third is to the left as facing the chief justice; and the last is carved in wood in the doors.

Now, the question we ask ourselves here is???? Will they remove their copies of the Ten Commandments from their courtroom??? Absolutely Not! Without a doubt they have already prepared themselves years back with a ready answer to cries of hypocracy from the masses in this issue.

We might ask, who are they to have the Ten Commandments on their walls, and demand that it be removed from other court rooms? (Be careful in asking this as you are attempting to gain logic from the same crew that prays each and every session yet determines prayer is too dangerous for children in and around our public institutions.) They keep their Ten Commandments to remind us that they are "under God's direction" while they sit ruling and judging our nation.

The height of tyranny in all of this is not just the contradiction of them keeping what they will not allow others to keep; but, the fact that they refuse to admit that their copies of the Ten Commandments are indeed the Ten Commandments.

Take the tour of the supreme court. Ask the tour guide if those are the Ten Commandments in the hands of Moses, and over the chief justices head, carved in the door in the entrance to the court room, and over the north side of the court room: and you will be shocked to find out that you were wrong all along. You will be told that they are not the Ten Commandments, but rather are the "TEN SECULAR MORAL LAWS FOR ALL NATIONS." You might even get a little shocked and ask the guide if he/she is trying to say that the tables of stone in the hands of Moses are not the Ten Commandments but some other "secular moral commandments for all nations," and if they are when did he come to possess that instead of the Ten Commandments.

The real problem here, and a problem much worse than the supreme court telling other courts that they can't have what they have allowed for themselves, is that they are willing and able to use their position to lie about what is carved on the walls of the supreme court room.

They take what is a 3500 year old icon and change it willy nilly to suit their desire to lie about what is on their walls. How is this possible? I honestly can't say. All i can say is that they have no right to change the 3500 year old icon of the Ten Commandments. They might be able to get away with telling others that they cannot have what the supremes allow for themselves, but they have no right to instruct the tour guides to LIE about what the tables of stone with the commandments on them are.

This is tyranny of the worse sort. This is so far out of what is right that it defies the capacity to explain to the normal person how damaging this potentially is. They might not like the Ten Commandments, nor the effect of believing in them; but, they have no right to offer an alternative meaning to the image or icon of what the tables of stone with the numbers 1-10 represent.

I can think of no other lie that is being proposed in our government that is equal to the damage that something like this has the potential to do. How many years of supreme court tours will it take before you have to argue with the public over what the Ten Commandments are. You tell them that they are the Law handed down from God through Moses, and they respond that there is nothing of God in it at all but that the image represents nothing but a picture of "THE TEN SECULAR MORAL LAWS FOR ALL NATIONS."

I know all this because i took the tour as soon as Judge Roy Moore began to encounter what looked like a case that was going to the higher courts. I went with my brother who is a pretty well known and very well versed constitutional lawyer. (There probably isn't a single case of religious freedom or practice that has hit the supreme court that he hasn't been somehow involved in over the last 15 years.)

I was the one who reeled in shock at the words of that twit who parroted the idiocy that she was told to say about the image of the Ten Commandments found all over that courtroom. She also said that she was instructed by the people that are in charge with the court NOT TO MENTION THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. She also said that if someone brought them up then she was to say that they were not the Ten Commandments; but, rather, THE TEN SECULAR MORAL LAWS FOR ALL NATIONS. I could not let it go. I asked her to name the first of these "secular moral laws for all nations." She was unable to name a single one.

My greatest upset in all of this is that the court has gone way past any reasonable reaction here. They have no right to take a well known and visibly recognized icon (one shared by three major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and change the meaning of it. They either need to shut up about it or to remove it, but the idea of changing what it means is an absolutely tyrannical action against free expression of religion,and government interference with our religious practices and beliefs.