I just now heard one of the best distillations of the Ten Commandments on Public Property Issue. It was by Rev. Ian Wrisley of Crested Butte, Colorado, a self-described Evangelical Minister who comments on NPR. Just now he spoke eloquently on the issue of government sponsored presentations of the Ten Commandments. I cannot relay word for word his comments, but I thought they were spot on: That what is being proposed, however well intentioned, is to put religious themes at the service of the State for State purposes. This is a pretty good definition of blasphemy.

What the gentleman said served me in three ways...It was a very well written and delivered piece in itself, it spoke eloquently to the issue, and it reminded me of something I already knew, there are some very fine thinkers among the Evangelical population of the US. It will show up on npr.org as an audio file and I hope to give it a re-listen.