[Ghoulish Delight]

You know, when you start to think about it, just how entwined in our nation's founding (from a governmental and judicial point of view) are the 10 Commandments anyway? Only 2 of them are laws. 4 are overtly religious (I am your God, no idols, keep the Sabbat, don't take the Lord's name in vain), 4 are good ideas but not criminal (no adultery, honor your parents, don't covet your neighbor's stuff, don't lie to get others in trouble). And the 2 that ARE laws are hardly the purvey of Christianity alone, prohibition against murder (or killing, if you go with the standard Christian translation) and theft predated the 10 Commandments. I think it's rather telling that the 80% of the content that is relatively unique to this particular set of moral codes* is NOT included in the founding documents of our nation.

But whatever. I'm neither horrified nor pleased by this ruling. Perhpas a balance can be struck, but they did fail to strike it. They need a more rigorous test of intent than they set up. Oh, wait, they didn't set up any test.

Honestly, the poop's not really going to hit the fan until someone tries put up a passage from the Quoran in a courtroom.

*edit: Rather, were realtively unique at the time they were created.