Display not problem, it’s location

Gene Linzey wonders why there is an uproar about public displays of the Ten Commandments. I don’t think most people have an issue with their public display. What rankles them is that they are being displayed near government buildings that are clearly secular spaces. The founders, though they were Christians, when establishing our government made sure it was to be religion neutral, neither establishing a state religion, nor prohibiting the exercise of any religion.

No one of any faith who appreciates rule of law in a civilized society opposes the Ten Commandments. Their place as a basis for secular law is well established; their principles are universal across all sectors of society. It is not that people are against God. They are just against the endorsement of a particular God that is implied in a Ten Commandments

monument on the capitol grounds. I often hear that the United States is a “Christian nation.” That may be true in that it is populated primarily by persons who claim Christianity as their faith. The government, and its facilities, however, are entirely secular. As such, what are ostensibly religious symbols should not be allowed in those places.