The Ten Commandments Weekend

[This story comes from Chris Rodda at Talk 2 Action.]

The United States Senate has very little to do these days. Therefore, two members of that august body have come together to sponsor S. Res. 483, which is about "recognizing the first weekend of May as 'Ten Commandments Weekend.'"

The two members involved in this particular bit of idiocy are none other than the mossback from Kansas, Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, the "independent" from Connecticut.

The resolution has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Representative Todd Akin (R-MO), along with 27 co-sponsors, introduced a similar resolution last August in the House of Representatives. According to Mr. Rodda, both of these resolutions "seek to promote the third annual Ten Commandments Weekend, an event instituted by the Ten Commandments Commission (TCC), an organization formed in 2005 in response to court rulings against the display of the ten commandments on government property."

Although I somehow missed these stupendous events, two Ten Commandments Weekends have already taken place, in the merry month of May in 2006 and 2007.

Rodda provides a glimpse at what TCC is all about. He says one of their goals is to promote the ten commandments, and make them the supreme law. But there's much more.

"TCC will become Watchmen for curricula being disseminated throughout American public high schools and colleges, specifically regarding the history of the Middle East and the current conflict that is biased toward Islamic interest..."

"With secular humanists waging their attacks at home, and the looming threat from the international radical Islam - people of faith become the line of defense - this is the Wall of Jerusalem,' and we are the watchman God has placed there."


Would you believe John Hagee is a founding member of TCC? Others on the advisory board include James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Rod Parsley and ex-Judge Roy Moore. Rodda says some TCC also includes some prominent Jews, including its founder, Ron Wexler."

Wexler, an Orthodox Jew, had some interesting things to say in a video message. TCC is "a grassroots movement to make a stop to radical Islam and to bring back the word of God, the foundation to the wall of Jerusalem."

He wants to enlist 5 million people in his cause because they can then "change that trend that is going to destroy America." You might wonder what is that trend.

Well, Wexler is convinced that our beloved country is about to be destroyed by "secular humanism and radical Islam."

An aside: It is fascinating to see an Orthodox Jew openly cavorting with people who believe him to be a lost soul, attached to the "old" covenant which has been abrogated by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and thus are certain he will spend eternity burning in hell unless he accepts Jesus as his personal savior.


What is especially frightening about all of this is that certain of our public servants--in this case two prominent and "powerful" senators (Brownback and Lieberman)--are promoting a program that is blatantly unconstitutional, and in their self-righteous moral fog, remain blissfully unaware they are tearing down the foundational structure of our country.

Secular humanism is no threat to our country. In fact, if these religious freaks are not reined in, secular humanism may be what saves this country.

And while radical Islam may be a threat to the stability of the world, when it comes to the stability of our country, I'm more afraid of people like Sam Brownback and Joe Lieberman!