Xian Fanatics At It Again in Kentucky

Although the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled at least twice that posting the Ten Commandments in public spaces is unconstitutional, disallowed and really fucking annoying, the dominionist freakazoids never quit.

The courthouse in Jackson County should have to take down several copies of the Ten Commandments because they are an improper governmental endorsement of religion, a federal lawsuit argues.

The lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and a county resident, Eugene Phillips Jr., seeks a ruling that nine copies of the biblical laws on the courthouse walls in McKee are unconstitutional. It also seeks an injunction ordering the county to take down the copies.

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(Jackson County Judge-Executive William O.) Smith said he had not seen a copy of the lawsuit but that most county residents would support keeping the Ten Commandments displayed in the courthouse. He said a judge might order the county to remove the Commandments, but "that doesn't mean it's right."

Thank you, Judge Smith, for reminding us that the courtesy title "Judge" given to county execs in Kentucky doesn't hide the lack of legal - or even basic educational - qualifications for the job.

The lawsuit was filed last week. The lawsuit says that Phillips and other ACLU members in Jackson County must use the courthouse to do business such as paying taxes.

When they do, exposure to the Ten Commandments displays is "direct and unwelcome," because the citizens see the copies as a message of religious endorsement by the county, in violation of the First Amendment, the lawsuit says.

The plaintiffs say that the First Amendment correctly seeks to protect individual freedom by preventing undue government interference in the exercise of religious beliefs, and by barring the government from favoring one religion over another, or religion over non-religion, the lawsuit says.

The ACLU and a handful of courageous citizens like Eugene Phillips are the only things standing between the secular republic the founders risked their lives to establish and the Dominionist nightmare the freakazoids want to impose.

If you haven't joined the ACLU yet, do it today. Or at least send them a check.