{"id":2228,"date":"2007-03-01T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/why-liberals-are-right-to-hate-the-ten-commandments\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T06:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:41:28","slug":"why-liberals-are-right-to-hate-the-ten-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/why-liberals-are-right-to-hate-the-ten-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"Why liberals are right to hate the Ten Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MichaelMedved\/2007\/02\/28\/why_liberals_are_right_to_hate_the_ten_commandments\">Townhall.com<\/a> Michael Medved February 28, 2007<\/p>\n<p>The left\u2019s fiery obsession with removing Ten Commandments monuments from public property throughout the United States may seem odd and irrational but actually reflects the deepest values of contemporary liberalism. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the last five years alone, the tireless fanatics at the ACLU have invested tens of millions of dollars and countless hours of legal time in lawsuits to yank the Commandments from long-standing displays in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Montana, Georgia, Iowa, Washington State, Nebraska, Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida. In one of the most recent battles, they delayed their litigation in Dixie County, Florida, because they couldn\u2019t find a single local resident to lend a name as plaintiff in a drive to dislocate the tablets from the local court house. <\/p>\n<p>Even for militant separationists like the ACLU, this ferocious hostility to innocuous and generally uncontroversial monuments looks excessive, even self-destructive. The overwhelming majority of Americans instinctively accept the Commandments as a timeless, cherished summary of universal moral precepts. A closer look at the specifics of the Decalogue, however, suggests that it makes good sense for leftists to hate The Big Ten: each one of the commandments contradicts a different pillar of trendy liberal thinking. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MichaelMedved\/2007\/02\/28\/why_liberals_are_right_to_hate_the_ten_commandments\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com Michael Medved February 28, 2007 The left\u2019s fiery obsession with removing Ten Commandments monuments from public property throughout the United States may seem odd and irrational but actually reflects the deepest values of contemporary liberalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}