Indiana Battle over the Ten Commandments

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In a message dated 03/17/2000 5:51:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
willesser at YAHOO.COM writes:

<<  I'm the first to admit that I am not a historian.
 If the historians out there are in agreement that the
 Commandments are not an important historical document,
 then I agree that the reasons for having them in the
 educational setting become purely religious and
 implicate the establishment clause. >>

In "The Garden and The Wilderness," Mark DeWolfe Howe ably demonstrated, and
directly to this point, the problems we have experienced in the Establishment
Clause area as justices of the Supreme Court PRETENDED to be historians and,
to the envy of historians everywhere, not only got to play historians but got
to have the FINAL say, even though they were not particularly qualified to be
historians and even though their historical interpretations were subject to
broad and significant doubts.

Jim "I'm Not A Historian, I Just Play One on the Bench" Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ