Christian Attorney Says 'Judicial Tyranny' Must Be Stopped

by Allie Martin
December 8, 2003

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(AgapePress) - A Christian attorney says recent rulings against the public display of the Ten Commandments should be a wake-up call for concerned believers.

During the past year, federal judges have ruled that plaques or monuments of the Ten Commandments must be either removed or covered in some public buildings and parks throughout the United States. Kelly Shackelford, president of Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute, says those judges are out of touch with the intent of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"It's really not about just the Ten Commandments," Shackelford says. "This is really about an attempt by some citizens in our society to simply eradicate religious history and religious expression from the public arena."

According to the Liberty Legal spokesman, the rulings are examples of judicial tyranny. "A lot of people didn't realize where these cases had been going," he says. "It's a wake-up call to people [to take notice].

"The judges are taking the country in a direction that is not only inconsistent with the founding of our country, but also inconsistent with what most Americans believe."

Shackelford says it is time for Americans to "get off the sidelines and say 'Enough's enough! We're not going to allow the judges to take over our country by rewriting our Constitution.'" Eventually, he says, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to hear a Ten Commandments case.

The controversy over the public display of the Decalogue started in 1980 when the high court ruled that even a privately donated copy of God's Laws could not be posted on a public school bulletin board in Kentucky.