A Supreme Court decision, due out today, may affect Guilford County.  At issue is the constitutionality of public displays of the Ten Commandments.

The grand courtroom where the Guilford County Commissioners now meet in our old County Courthouse has an unabashed display of the Commandments behind the Commissioner's dais.  To me, in that particular edifice, the Commandments are displayed in a way that goes far beyond their original intent as being a guide to the judicial proceedings that were held in that splendidly appointed courtroom for so many decades.  Over the years, they have taken on an aire of artwork and are an integral part of the room's architecture in my opinion.

I wonder if the Court's decision will take into account the possibility that religious symbols can, over time, be transformed into something unintended?  Can our Courthouse's very public display of the Ten Commandments now be considered historic and important artwork worthy of preservation?

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Billy on JW:  "... For us dudes, reading JW's blog is sometimes like sitting through those women's hygiene commercials on television..."  Heh.  Read it all.

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Ed Whitfield is blogging.

Even though Ed gives me some credit for pushing him over the edge with my phone call to him earlier this month, I credit the fact that he just has a lot of important things to say and this is a great medium  for getting it out here for everyone to see.  You go Ed.

By the way... Ed lives in the Aycock neighborhood.  If Greensboro is to be considered the center of the blogging universe... Aycock is the white hot core.  Wharton x 2, Mitchell, Lauver, Gross, Whitfield, and yours truly are current (who'd I miss?).  Transplanted Aycock bloggers include frograbbitmonkey and Michael.

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