Laurie Lebo, discussing the essential, but too often overlooked, distinction between private religious displays and those that are school-sponsored:
[M]any people, including the Giles County students, misunderstand the difference between free expression of one’s religious views and the endorsement by one’s government. Unfortunately, too many people misunderstand them as the same thing.
In a yet another classic example from Giles County, members of the ministry All 10 Commandments were handing out yard signs of the Ten Commandments last week in opposition to the removal from the schools. For some reason, the fact that people are free to display religious signs in their front yards seems to be completely lost on them.
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