The American Legion, a group that has proved itself no friend of religious pluralism or liberty in America, is now looking at helping erect a Ten Commandments monument in Rupert, Idaho. They think that the recent Supreme Court decisions will support them, but I don't think that they have a clue about what they are doing.

The Casper Star-Tribune reports:

[S]upporters at the George E. Marshall American Legion Post [are] basing their renewed bid on the high court's May 27 ruling that the legality of having the Ten Commandments on government property should be settled on a case-by-case basis. This is at least the second effort in Idaho to erect a monument based on the court's decision.

"I think it's about time," said Don Murray, an official with the veterans organization who promoted the effort in 2003. "I think it's the right thing."

It would be very difficult to erect a new monument that has any of the characteristics of the monument in Texas that was upheld. Groups like the American Legion don't care about that, though. They only care about whether their narrow-minded views are being endorsed by the government. Society has been moving beyond them for years and their kind of intolerance is simply not accepted like it once was — perhaps that's why they feel the need for government endorsement.

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