Justice Roy S. Moore’s latest article in the WSJ’s OpinionJournal entitled, “A Higher Authority”, brings to light a disturbing oddity in recent Supreme Court rulings on the placement of the Ten Commandments in public places.

Justice Moore writes,

“All told this Court’s jurisprudence leaves courts, governments, and believers and nonbelievers alike confused–an observation that is hardly new.” With these words Justice Clarence Thomas accurately described the Supreme Court’s latest efforts in McCreary County v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry to determine whether public displays of the Ten Commandments on state property are consistent with the U.S. Constitution.

Remember these two cases: McCreary County v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry as I’m sure you’ll be seeing more references to them in future Decalogue cases by Plaintiff Attorneys and Supreme Courts State and Federal. It seems that Moral Relativism has a firm grip on the hearts and minds of our Honorable Supreme Court Justices. This threatens the integrity of our courts as well as the validity of our Constitution.

Seeing as our Congress has started practically every session by praying to a Holy and Benevolent God by praying in Jesus’ Name, and seeing as how our Founders were open supporters of the Bible, of Christianity and maintained a well-documented Faith in Jesus Christ, and seeing as it was President John Adams who said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other,” and seeing as it was Patrick Henry who, in 1776, wrote the following: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here,” and seeing as in 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: “The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools,” (nope, it wasn’t deemed unconstitutional by those who signed and ratified the self-same document — who well knew it’s original intent!), and finally, and perhaps most importantly, seeing as how James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: “We have staked the whole future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments,” I do hereby proclaim that by virtue of a verifiable history of this nation, that our Supreme Court will indeed have betrayed the charter of the Supreme Court that was the intent of the Founders nearly 230 years ago. Many generations have passed since our ancestral Founders began the American experiment, yet it seems all too short that such a grand vision and noble experiment should fall prey to the tarnish of moral relativism. It is the people of America that made her great…now it seems that it is the people of America who is allowing her to remain dirty and tarnished…like a dusty Bible on a bookshelve in a dark and dreary basement.

So for now, it seems that the Supreme Court will decide what is free to stand and what is doomed to the ash heaps…and all on a case-by-case basis.

See also Robert Bork’s article in the WSJ.com (subscription required) entitled, “Their Will Be Done”.