Just wanted to comment on the 10 Commandments thing in Alabama.
Well I won't tell you all my opinion, cause that should be obvious. However, an unlikely scribe waxing poetic about football known simply as TMQ on espn's Page2 (At http://espn.go.com/page2/s/tmq/030826.html), provided what I feel is an excellent insight given by a good Christian boy :)
anyway here's an excerpt:
Judge Roy Moore, the publicity-seeker who put the 2.5-ton Ten Commandments in the Alabama state courthouse, declared Monday that he could disobey the direct order of a federal judge because "judges do not make laws, they interpret them." Since, Moore continued, an interpretation can be wrong, therefore he may defy a judicial order. So presumably Judge Moore also thinks that if he sentences a man to prison, the man can declare that the interpretation might be wrong and walk free? It's exactly the same logic.

Moore further said that the First Amendment precept, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion," does not apply to him because "I am not Congress." Drag this incompetent lunatic out of the court quickly, please. Anyone with entry-level knowledge of Constitutional law knows that the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was intended to extend the Bill of Rights to state governments; that a 1937 Supreme Court decision specifically declared that the First Amendment binds state officials like Judge Moore.

As a church-going Christian -- TMQ was in church on Sunday -- I find it deeply embarrassing when Christianity is associated, in the public eye, with hucksters like Moore. I find it embarrassing, too, when Christians supporting Moore's hunk of stone suggest that a big object in a public square is what matters, rather than the power of God's message itself. Anyone who needs to look at a big object in order to believe, doesn't really believe.

How is it that there are so many Judges who are placed in a position where Partisan politics should never play a role, and where personal agendas should not factor in, yet seem to not be concerned with the letter of the law, rather only be concerned with furthering their own agenda? What scares me more is how so many judges are in power today without even a rudimentary understanding of Constitutional law. Its funny that the BBC can have the knowledge to call the U.S. Constitution "Secular", yet many politicians and Judges, Including our wonderful appointed leader G.W. seem to have trouble understanding this. Here's a challenge for y'all, show me just one instance of God being mentioned in the Constitution. Just one. Hmmm, having problems? Of Course you are! Cause it isn't there. Not once. The closest reference to God is at the very end, there is a mention of "in the year of our lord" referring to the practice of dating things using the terms B.C. and A.D. (Which means "anno Domini" translated to "the year of our Lord" not "After Death" like many people foolishly believe) Here's the actual quote:
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September "in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven" and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth IN WITNESS whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names

Hardly the smoking gun linking the Constitution to religion. But hey, to each his own I suppose. I mean after all you can sing any Emily Dickenson poem to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" And some people claim that the bible is written in code, and by reading every twelfth word, you can learn how to build a spaceship to Mars or something like that.
I'm thinking about asking Canada to grant me exile....
Peace
JC