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Let's be honest here: what we're discussing is posting the Commandments on government property, using taxpayer funded recourses as a forum for religion.

Let's be honest? I wish you would.

To have this farce going on under the guise of the first ammendment is an affont to anyone with a shred of honesty.

Let's go through some of the ammendments and see just how plain english can be twisted to mean anything.

1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Translation: The courts should strenuously stamp out all displays of religion on taxpayer property, and ensure that no one ever utters a religious word on public property. Freedom of speech shall only apply to pornographers, homosexuals, and America-hating liberals. Political speech must be strictly regulated. Any church that offers an unkind word about a democrat shall be shut down immediately.

2. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Translation: You can keep your guns until we say otherwise.

5. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Translation: Kick in all the doors you want boys, but make sure to wear ski masks when you are doing it and don't bother checking the address.

10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Translation: All power is vested in the courts. If the courts say day is night, everyone shall go home to bed. If the courts define marriage as only occurring between a hairless midget and 7 foot transsexual, so be it.