OPINION:
I am disappointed with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for banning the Ten Commandments from an Ohio Courtroom (“No room for the Ten Commandments,” Comment & Analysis, Feb. 9).
In coining the phrase “wall of separation of church and state” in 1801, Thomas Jefferson never intended that social and political issues be divorced from codes of morality. He merely meant that the U.S. government should be prevented from establishing one or another church as the official religion of the nation.
The U.S. government would not be endorsing one religion were it to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in courthouses, schools and on public property. On the contrary, it would be an endorsement of atheism to disallow the public display of the Ten Commandments and that is an outcome the Founding Fathers would be against.
PAUL KOKOSKI
Hamilton, Ontario
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