The obituary of the tyranny of the judicial branch of government can finally be written. In two days of wrong-headed decisions, Dred Scott-like in their proportion, the Court has finally put the nail in their own lawless coffin. Even the most uneducated American knows the Supreme Court has officially run amok. When Government is told they can act as an arm of private developers to trump your inalienable right to own and make use of your cherished private property you can safely assume that these robed robber barons have lost all familiarity with common sense or the rule of law.(See Kelo v. New London). Our free market Founding Fathers are rolling in their private property graves.
After the liberal wing of a once respectable court got done eviscerating your right to your land they proceeded to make a mockery of the Establishment Clause. In a 5-4 decision the Court decreed that the State of Kentucky could not place a monument of the 10 Commandments in their courthouse square because it was clearly religious in nature.(See McCreary County v. ACLU). In a separate decision, however, the Court concluded that these same Commandments were legally permissible in Texas because they were part of an historical display and, therefore, religiously neutral. (See Van Orden v. Perry). In the final perversion of the free exercise of religion that this nation is likely to tolerate, the Court, with a stroke of its pen, not only made complete fools of themselves for failing to set a comprehensible rule but stepped over their own self-proclaimed constitutional dicta and proved themselves downright hostile to religion as opposed to simply “neutral”.
The Founding Fathers wanted no state establishment of an official religion. The rule was later revised in Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) to mandate that statutes or government actions could only be neutral, neither favoring or disfavoring religion. This decision, however, crossed the line to mandate that when something is identified as having a clearly religious purpose the government must take action against it.
The constitutional moorings of these decisions are of course a lie, as big a lie as the penumbras found in Roe vs. Wade or the various other non-existent rights the liberal courts have fashioned out of whole cloth in the last 65 years. Apparently, in their zeal to eviscerate all that Americans hold sacred they neglected to actually read what they were deciding about. Here’s a start: Thou shall not lie, thou shall not steal and thou shall not worship false idols. No wonder the liberal wing of the Supreme Court would like to see the10 Commandments eradicated from the public square. Its simple edicts are their worst nightmare.
