Here's what the Indiana House needs to do...ignore the Federal Judge's ruling.
The Federal Court has no standing in this case and has never had any authority in the matter of any state government's treatment of religion. It is time for a state to lead the way in enforcing this fact on the rogue federal courts.
You're probably right. But the same thing should have happened in Florida when the Courts ruled Terry Schiavo should be starved and dehydrated to death.
Somebody should stand up to these courts.
But ALL our political offices, nearly every one, is filled by craven cowards whose only interest is in retaining their sinecures so they can retire with all those great perks the normal folk never get. The only way they can be assured of that is by not rocking the boat and shaking up the system.
And the system needs to be shaken up and the boat rocked so hard that a lot of these people fall off.
Back in 1776 this judge would be stretching a rope in the town square, surrounded by hundreds of armed militiamen.
But this is 2005 and we don't have militia - we have the police establishment - with their own perks and salaries to protect, and they protect them by serving the courts, not us.
Since the fourteenth amendment the States can no longer endorse a religion.
Wonder who brought the case? Would appear they certainly "court shopped" for a favorable ruling. I think the Indiana legislature - the peoples of Indiana house - should put this judiciary member in their place.