Norman City Council Unanimously Approves Public Profanity

When Moses received the Ten Commandments God made it clear that his name was not to be bandied about lightly.  God is nobody's mascot.  No one is to speak that name without the reverence that is due to the Almighty and the penalty for doing so would be severe:

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.  (Exodus 20:7 KJV)

At the request of some pretentiously pious city council members, the Norman City Council voted unanimously last night to post the supremely profane and sacrilegious motto "In God We Trust" in a prominent place in the city council chambers.

The council did so after being reminded that the Supreme Court's Lynch v. Donnelly (1984) decision upholding the constitutionality of the phrase as a national  motto ruled that the phrase serves no religious purpose but only a "secular purpose."   The Supremes called it a form of "ceremonial deism" that is constitutionally permissible only because this reference to God has "lost through rote repetition any significant religious content."

What the Supreme Court said about this national motto is precisely what God prohibited in Exodus 20:7.

There is no doubt that the pretentiously pious city council members who promoted this action were aware of the constitutional necessity to not give the appearance that they were supporting any religion or attaching any religious significance to the name of God.  Jeff Bryant, Norman's City Attorney made that clear when he said:

The resolution drafted by the three council members who sponsored the posting of the motto "is worded in such a way that it emphasizes the historical significance of the words."  If the motto is being posted for historical reasons, "and not in an effort to promote one religion over another, it's legally OK," Bryant said.

Clearly, these pretentiously pious city council members have knowingly and deliberately promoted the public profaning of the name of the Almighty.

I believe in a God of grace and mercy but I would not presume upon that grace in such a willful and unrepentant fashion.

May God have mercy on their souls.  They know what they are doing.