Fundamentalists and other conservative Christians have gone to a great deal of effort to defend the idea that the government should promote and endorse their religious beliefs. What would happen, however, if other religious groups tried to do the same thing? What if, in an alternate universe, followers of Cthulhu were in the same position?

That's the scenario outlined here:

Alabama's Supreme Court judges, breaking ranks with their chief justice, ruled that a Cthulhu monument must be removed from the state court building to comply with a federal order, drawing protests from insane cultists who want to keep it there. ... Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's defiant stand over the cult of Elder Gods is only the latest skirmish in a running battle between the ranks of insane cultists and civil libertarians that dates back to Abdul "The Mad Arab" Alhazred's 1910s epic about the Necronomicon, experts say.

I'm sure that a number of Christians would be offended by the above article - but if so, perhaps that will help them understand why so many non-Christians are offended at the actions of Roy Moore and his supporters. It wouldn't be right for Hindus to do it, it wouldn't be right for followers of Cthulhu to do it, and it isn't right when Christians do it.

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