[RockBassCreek]

On what basis can a governmental institution post the 10 commandments?

To be frank, I've not heard a good argument supporting the posting of the 10 commandments. They keep losing in court, so it's obvious that no one is coming up with a clincher argument.

Keep in mind that I am a very vocal Christian and DO support a 10 commandments initiative in our own local school system. It has lost at every level of court, so far, though.

That is because there is not a good clincher argument.

[onedoug]

They are really the anchor of Western and Judeo-Christian civilization. Name a law of ours that isn't in some way so derived.

Fear of God, diminishes that of man.

If we're not already in it, there's another civil war coming in this country.

[dsc]

"To be frank, I've not heard a good argument supporting the posting of the 10 commandments."

Well, under the US Constitution you don't need one. Freedom of religion is held to be a divinely conferred right, with which the US government may not interfere, and there is nothing in the Constitution to say that employees of the government may not exercise that right.

The God-haters can only invoke the tendentious and insupportable argument that any exercise of religion by any employee of any government agency constitutes the establishment of an official state religion, which is patent nonsense.

It's a very clever ploy, actually, to advance an argument that is so bad the only response is, "That's nonsense," and then demand that the opposition present reasoned or factual evidence in rebuttal.