Continuing to watch and pray for Judge Roy Moore and his response to the federal justices order that the statue of the Ten Commandments be removed from the Alabama Supreme Court building. A lot of media reporting is focused on the "right-wing Christian zealots" [by the way, shouldn't all believers be zealots?] and the separation of church and state issue.

I might agree with a pragmatic approach, such as Marvin Olasky has recommended, except that this is also a serious Constitutional issue. The way this is settled will determine much about both the 1st and 10th Amendments are interpreted in the future. We already have far too much judicial interpretation of the Constitution creating federal law. And judges can be completely wrong (remember the Dred Scott decision that blacks were property not people?).

Mark Alexander has a great column on this issue. "Most media pundits, and the couch potatoes who suckle at their font, never took a civics class and couldn't distinguish the substance of this case -- the constitutional issue -- from the superfluous -- "Showdown on the 10 Commandments." Thus, they have cast this case as nothing more than a "right-wing Christian zealot" trying to keep a monument of the Decalogue in a courthouse in the backwoods of lower Alabama.

Demonstrating their nescience, Leftmedia talkingheads adroitly taunt, "Well, can the state of Alabama put a shrine to Mohammed in the judicial rotunda?" The answer is...YES! In accordance with the First and Tenth Amendments, if the people of Alabama choose to do so, that is their prerogative. "