"Historical Documents"

Just as creationists have started a "teach the controversy" approach for injecting mythology into science classrooms, right-wing Christians have decided to use a "historical document" approach to get incantations and sectarian proscriptions back into public schools. South Carolina has decided to try the first transparent bait-and-switch.

Are the 10 commandments and Jesus' schizophrenic prayer to his father/himself historical documents, to be put alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta? No, and any judge will see right through this nonsense. Neither directly or indirectly affected any of our governing documents (as is obvious by the lack of even part of either in the language of our constitution), nor are they contemporary to any American event (as in the case of MLK's speech).

What's sad is that a majority who voted for this know it's wrong and why, but they're just too incompetent and cowardly to stand up and make the case against it.

Of course, any judge who strikes this down will be an activist, like Hugo Black was.