Supreme Madness

This morning the Supreme Court delivered a split decision on public displays of the Ten Commandments. Just as it did on Affirmative Action, the court split hairs. The court ruled that the Ten Commandments could be displayed on government property but said it could not be displayed inside a government building. In both cases the deciding vote was cast by Justice O'Connor. Can I get a resounding "Make up your mind already!" on such important rulings? Now personally, I am a huge supporter of the separation of church and state. I fail to understand why the religious right sees the removal of Christian symbols from public venues as an attack on their faith. How would they feel if it were a statue of the Budda or passages from the Koran that were being displayed on public grounds? Something tells me that they would be outraged. Religion must be entirely absent in government. If not for fairness then for the sake of allowing new ideas to form rather than locking into ancient paradigms. Furthermore, I challenge those that seem to believe that it takes such huge amounts of convincing to get a person to believe in the same faith as them. If it takes this much convincing, have you ever considered that it might be you that is in the wrong? What evangelicals must realize is that whatever spiritual path a person chooses of their own free will is the right one, for them.