Federal judge rules that controversial Ten Commandments monument in New Mexico must go.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that a New Mexico city must remove a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lawn in front of Bloomfield City Hall. 

Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Parker said in his ruling in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union that the monument amounts to government speech and has the "principal effect of endorsing religion." 

Because of the context and history surrounding the granite monument, Parker said Bloomfield clearly violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. 

He gave a Sept. 10 deadline for its removal. The suit was filed in 2012 on behalf of two Bloomfield residents who practice the Wiccan religion.

Well at least the Wiccans will take the heat for this one instead of the Atheists. 

The Bloomfield mayor claimed that he considered it a monument to an historical document. However I am not sure how the Ten Commandments could be considered part of New Mexico's history.

Not only that but of course the actual tablets themselves never existed which sort of undermines the idea that they have a place in reality based history.

If one were to follow that line of logic one could put up a statue representing the Tortoise and the Hare from Aesop's Fables, Humpty Dumpty from Mother Goose, or even Rapunzel from Grimm's Fairy Tales.

I like a man who tells it like it is.

Easily one of my favorite character actors.

And clearly not a man who gladly entertains fools.

(Source.)

Gee, I wonder how this guy votes?

Either he doesn't understand the definition of "Evolution," or he doesn't understand the definition for "Fairy Tales."

Somebody might also want to let him know that they sell a thing called bumper stickers.

I'm just saying.

This, this should be the bedtime story that we all read to our children every night.

How empowering would it be to realize, as a small child, the enormity of your heritage?

To know that the elements that make up their body were delivered from the heavens, and that they once made up titans of space and traveled through the galaxy at enormous speed just to bring them to life?

You can keep your Bible, your Qaran, and other books of fairy tales, because the reality of who we are, and where we came from, is SO much more impressive than the limp colorless stories trapped within their pages.