The Eleventh Commandment: Ignore the Previous Ten

Keeping out the good just lets in the evil.

Yesterday Federal Judge Fred Biery issued a restraining order against the new Texas law that would put the Ten Commandments into every public school classroom in the state. Biery knows better than what he’s doing, but he feels the need to deliver a favor for his fellow Democrats. It is not good for this nation.

I know Fred Biery. We both grew up in San Antonio. He went to high school with my wife, Kathy. Other than being a Democrat he’s nice guy, but when your party calls, I guess he thinks you do what you can, even if you’ve watched your party descend into a corrupt immoral pile of manure over the past forty years.

CNN was gleeful:

The colorful 55-page opinion issued Wednesday by US District Judge Fred Biery is the latest court victory in a series of legal challenges to laws that have been enacted in three southern states over the last year that require public schools to display the Ten Commandments.

CNN hasn’t had much to be gleeful about lately. A fat lady in Dubuque changing her pants in a Chevrolet would attract more viewers than CNN has these days, so they take their glee where they can find it.

Biery’s order was just a last desperate attempt to degrade our public schools along the lines of what Democrats have done over the past 70 years. Of the 55 pages, Biery waits until page 18, almost halfway through, before quoting an actual federal court ruling on the issue. Up to then it’s the old baffle-them-with-B.S. routine used in Roe v. Wade, talking about traditions and pre-1776 laws instead of citing actual legal precedent made under our Constitution. When the precedent train finally pulls into the station, it’s dragging the tired old Engel v. Vitale decision from 1962 and Abington Township from 1963, which banned prayer in public schools.

Those decisions were part of the assault on America kept up by the Warren and Burger Courts from 1953 to 1986. Rather than pay attention to the actual Constitution, the justices followed the whims of East Coast liberals who wore black turtlenecks and quoted Nietzsche. Overeducated leftists thought prayer was déclassé, so out it went. They felt police were being sooo mean to criminals, so along come the Miranda warning and Mapp v. Ohio. Pregnancy got in the way of meaningless sex, hence Roe v. Wade. None of this was in the Constitution, but by the turn of the century. America society was shot.

All those court decisions made by liberals who hate religion are based on two phrases in our First Amendment. It begins this way:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

Now does that say anything about prayer in schools? Does it say anything to restrict prayer ANYWHERE? No. The Founders had come from cultures where governments had official religions. That’s what they wanted to avoid. Even today the government of Germany taxes citizens to support the Lutheran Church, not that Germans go to church much anymore. The Church of England was and is the official church in that country, as was the Roman Catholic Church in Spain and France.

That is what they meant with the phrase that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Those were the established religions of those countries. Saying Congress could not prohibit the free exercise of religion was just the other side of the same coin—we’re not going to have an official religion but we’re not going to keep you from being religious.

For a hundred years federal judges couldn’t even rule on such matters—the First Amendment didn’t apply to individual states, just the federal government, and the feds didn’t operate any schools. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) allowed the Supreme Court to say that “by incorporation,” some of the amendments in the Bill of Rights DID apply to states, so the Warren and Burger Courts decided they could rule on just about anything. And they did.

Now comes Judge Biery to tell us that not only is prayer in school illegal, but that simply having the Ten Commandments on the wall of a classroom is unconstitutional. He cites the complaints of a number of plaintiffs who claim to be religious but still have objections to the Commandments as they might be presented and how it might affect their poor, defenseless (but religious) children. In summation, Biery states “Even though the Ten Commandments would not be affirmatively taught, the captive audience of students likely would have questions, which teachers would feel compelled to answer.”

Waaah. Poor teachers. However, just to be fair, I would be willing to agree with the judge if his ruling applied to other things that might influence children just by being in a classroom. How about gay pride flags, promotions of drag performances, images of mass murderer Che Guevara, anything referring to Communist beliefs or Muslim terrorists? Certainly he would object to the displays of Adolf Hitler or swastikas, so why not these other things as well?

In eliminating Judeo-Christian religions in schools based on the deliberate deception that the Founders somehow hated religion, liberal courts have simply opened the door for all those other religions: Communism, radical gay grooming, pedophilia, Muslims pushing terrorism, sharia law and other things directly antithetical to our beliefs as Americans.

The reality is people need to believe in something, and if you eliminate religions that have been good for people for the past two to four thousand years, they will end up believing in things that will wreck this nation in just a decade or so. Christianity and Judaism don’t need to be official religions, but for God’s sake (literally) give them a chance to compete.

Judge Fred Biery knows all this, but he’s chosen to promote his currently-corrupt political party over what he knows would be good for the nation.

Of all the decisions he’s rendered, this could easily be his worst.