Should the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools? October 1st, 1997-A 16-year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1st, 1997-Three students are killed and five injured as a 14-year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. March 24th 1998-Four students and a teacher shot to death during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas. April 20th, 1999-15 people die in the largest school shooting ever students Eric Harris Dylan Klebold shoot fellow students and themselves. With all these catastrophes occurring our confused nation questions why are these terrible things occurring? Yet while these questions are being pondered the law forbids a public school to hang the Ten Commandments? Schools should be allowed to post the Ten Commandments. Not only would these terrible crimes be decreased, but also morality could be brought into our Nation once again.One reason the Ten Commandments should be posted is that the government has never passed a law implementing a separation of Church and State. Amendment 1 in the Bill of Rights states the following: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." This Amendment does not even suggest the Separation of Church and State. The phrase, "Establishment of Religion", means that Congress could not set one Christian religion above another or establish a national church like the Emperors and Kings had done throughout the years. The two phrases, "Establishment of Religion", and "Separation of Church and State", are not comparable or compatible. They are two totally different ideas. Also when any individual even fathoms the concept of separation of Church and State does this idea even exist? Most of our forefathers were Well-read, intelligent, Christian men: If they had wanted to say Sep...
