To the editor: How is it possible that the venerable Church-State wall of our democracy has come under constant attack lately? (“Supreme Court should not approve Louisiana's provocative Ten Commandments law,” editorial, June 25)
Even we agnostics would admit that “God knows why.” Christian conservatives fear the growing percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation. If recent trends continue, the unaffiliated will outnumber Christians within the next 20 years.
This prospect has no doubt alarmed conservative Christian justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, who welcome all manner of so-called religious liberty cases to encourage religious proselytizing, however subtle or overt, from school campuses to statehouses.
It is a desperate tactic designed to preserve the dwindling majority of American Christians, not to mention their disproportionate political (and judicial) influence.
Unfortunately, the torrent of faith-indulgent rulings is unlikely to abate anytime soon. No matter how constitutionally sinful it is to favor theocracy over democracy.
Gary Dolgin, Santa Monica
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To the editor: It would seem that the same conservatives who do not want our children to feel guilty about the past treatment of African Americans, and have therefore banned critical race theory from classrooms, now want the Ten Commandments to be displayed in those classrooms. .
How many of us have snuck a cookie out of the cookie jar, had Taylor Swift as an idol, or worked on a Sunday (or is it Saturday?).
Should we constantly remind our children of those sins, but not the sins of our racist past?
Larry Harmell, Granada Hills
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To the editor: Louisiana educators who have problems with the new Ten Commandments law should post them prominently in their classrooms, but upside down, as a sign of distress.
Dan Proctor, Northridge
