Our first president, George Washington, stated in his farewell address that “of all the dispositions that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports,” in the first and second tables of the Ten Commandments.

Yet the United States Supreme Court took the opposite position in 1980 in the case of Stone v. Graham, in which they refused on a 5-4 vote to let a Kentucky schoolhouse display the Ten Commandments in its classrooms, reasoning “if the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon and obey, however desirable this might be as a matter of private devotion, it is not permissible state objective under the Establishment Clause.”

But the court restricted teaching students to read “thou shalt not kill,” “though shalt not steal” and “honor thy father and they mother.” Why? Because students might obey them?

A society that does not respect those Commandments is doomed to failure. As the prophet Hosea said, “my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, I will also reject thee. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Problems we are seeing in America today are the result of that rejection of God. Tragedies like school shootings are not the result of a lack of gun control, but a lack of self-control. The Ten Commandments teach respect for God and respect for each other. If children were taught to obey those Commandments, perhaps we wouldn’t suffer the evil that permeates America today as to fear God and obey, we cannot do without knowing what He requires.

Atheists and ACLU are fighting against our freedoms of religion, bestowed on America by our Founding Fathers.