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Monday, August 25, 2003

•••The Law and Unintended Consequences

Thou Shalt Not Read Those Here...


Knowing that Bryan is a fan of pondering ironic unintended consequences, I thought this UPI Religion Editor's article an interesting angle to the Alabama 10 Commandments controversy and America's dealing with homosexuality matters in church and state.

Americans are themselves probably quite unlikely to notice, ask or even care what world Islam and global Christianity might think as they look at these things. Being so 'multiculturally sensitive' as we claim, the fact that we self-righteously cause offense in this way is startling to behold.

Who really cares what the neighbors will think ... unless that thinking actually drives them to start doing something. But hey, what are the odds that foreign people convinced America is rotten to the core would feel entirely justified in destroying it?

Thou Shalt Not Read These


Yet we seem to care so much what the local neighbors will think -- if they read the 10 Commandments -- that we can't allow them to be displayed in public...

A few salient sentences from the UPI Religion Commentary:

Doubtless, televised images of these arrests will go around the globe. Doubtless America's most lethal enemies will watch them, nodding knowingly. Doubtless, like the recent reports from the Episcopal Church's appalling General Convention in Minneapolis, these pictures will reinforce the conviction of radical Islamists that America is rotten to the core, an easy pushover for those determined enough to fight it.

Imagine, they might say, American cops manacling their own ministers; imagine them dragging away an old lady of faith in a wheelchair under an oxygen tent! Imagine these policemen being, in a sense, party to a godless attack on one of the great treasures of all mankind - ten tenets most humans affirm.

"They accuse us of intolerance," some of these Islamists will argue, "but look how intolerant they themselves are. They are not even prepared to tolerate the public display of what for over three millennia have been the ground rules for human behavior and the relationship between God and man."
And from near the end:
And this content made Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, if you don't mind, cherish the Ten Commandments as the great moral code for all humanity, including of course their acknowledgment of the Creator.

This is not about the separation between church and state. Gandhi wasn't a member of the church or synagogue, neither were the Babylonians whose laws, written 1,700 years before Christ, including much of what we affirm in the Ten Commandments, nor all those cultures around the world, who through the ages would not countenance murder, theft, lying and adultery either.

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