Why Now?

In the last 25 years, the Ten Commandments have fallen victim to both apathy and outright hostility.  Unfortunately, a small group of atheist organizations have succeeded in convincing liberal judges that the public display of the Ten Commandments is illegal and that monuments memorializing the Decalogue should be removed from the public square. 

The primary weapon directed against the Commandments has been a distorted interpretation of the “Separation of Church and State doctrine”, a doctrine that does not even exist; nowhere in the constitution, nor in its amendments does this supposed doctrine appear.  The courts created this “Doctrine” out of whole cloth having seized on a phrase contained in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Convention.

The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing an “official” state religion but also makes clear that the State may not prohibit the free exercise of religion.  The Founders were not as interested in protecting the state from religion as they were in protecting religious expression from the intrusion of the State.

Today, instead of the courts respecting the Judeo-Christian heritage of America, they have declared war on every religious expression from school prayer to the Ten Commandments.  Never before in our history has there been more hostility towards religion and traditional Judeo-Christian values.  Unfortunately, this hostility is perpetuated by very few and is directly opposed to the beliefs and wishes of the majority of Americans.