In the nearly two-year history of morons.org, we've reported on a lot of stupid legislators trampling the Establishment Clause to make sure Christianity is supported by public resources. There are too many articles to even link here. In practically all the cases, the slimy legislators tried to excuse their bills as being "patriotic, not religious." Or they tried to argue that the Ten Commandments is an American "historical document." Whatever the fallacy, a charitable person would at least have wiggle room to give these legislators the benefit of the doubt... as being clueless rather than malicious.

Tennessee has become the first state to vanish this doubt. When they first started posting the Commandments in public buildings, there may have been room to assume cluelessness on their part. But now, thanks to Rachel Cate, a student at Cleveland High School in one of Tennessee's Commandment Counties, we now know that Tennessee is overtly hostile toward using public resources to embrace any religious viewpoint other than Christianity. It seems Rachel started this fuss by asking an innocent question: Why can't the school post the Five Pillars of Islam alongside the Ten Commandments?

It's funny, because this is a hypothetical I've used in previous articles -- namely, would these Establishment Clause violators like having public resources devoted to religions they didn't like? I theorized that the answer would be a resounding "no," and now Tennessee has provided our first evidence of this -- the county commission completely avoided addressing Rachel's question altogether. Said Commission Chairman Mike Smith, "At this point, we have our agendas full and there's no point in the immediate future to address that."

I guess that means the agendas were empty and the Commission had nothing better to do the day they stumbled all over themselves to get the Ten Commandments into schools in the first place. Congratulations, Mike, you've provided the ACLU with some excellent evidence against all the typical "secular purpose" lies I'm sure you've prepared for court. Explain, exactly, the secular purpose behind displaying one religious document on public property while intentionally excluding others.

Even the "reindeer rule" isn't going to save Tennessee on this one.

-Jason

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