I agree. The Constitutional prohibition is against the establishment of religion, not merely offending someone. In fact, the First Amendment guarantees the right of free speech even if such speech might offend someone.
Putting a statue of the Virgin Mary in the courthouse would establish a religion. Installing a crucifix on the steeple would establish a religion. Hanging a Jewish Star on the courthourse would establish a relgion.
I agree. How is installing a monument of the Ten Commandments any different from any of these examples?
Banning the Ten Commandments which even Myron Thompson admits is the basis for American jurisprudence is also the establishment of religion. The New Age religion of secular humanism whose creed is moral relativism.
I don't know what Myron Thompson admitted (or didn't admit) about the Ten Commandments, but I certainly don't admit it. I don't need some ancient religious tablet to tell me that, e.g., murder, theft, and perjury are morally wrong and should be against the law.
I don't know anybody who advocates a theocracy. I certainly don't but I'm sick of judicial activists, the ever widening wall and an American judicial sytem that favbors the secualists at the expense of those who believe in God.
I'm sick of anyone -- whether religious zealots on the right, political correctness nazis on the left, or whoever -- who wants to use the coercive power of government to tell me what I should think, what I should do, or how I should live. Who are you or anyone else to tell me how I should live my own life? It isn't yours to tell me how to live it. The Founding Fathers, too, understood that every man's life belonged to him and him alone. It doesn't belong to the State, and it doesn't belong to any church, either.
Who are you or Myron Thompson to tell Roy Moore how to live his own life? Just how has the TC monument told you to do anything? It isn't a law or a religion. It's a rock with words on it.
You're offended that someone else has stood up and made a statement of what he believes in and for your grievance you are willing to trash the 1st Amendment.
May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget you ever lived.