They just know that, being in the minority, standing up will achieve nothing other than making their lives hell.

Were they not so ignorant, they'd realize this opens a huge can of worms.

I'm talking about the anti immigration riots in Philadelphia in 1844 that were originally started a year earlier when the politicians decreed the 10 commandments were to be posted in public school classrooms. The initial ordinance was met by approval by all groups.

But what version of the 10 commandments? The WASPs wanted the KJV. The Germans and Irish wanted the Douay. Battle lines were drawn and the whole thing culminated in months of sporadic violence that damaged churches, killed 15 and injured 50.

The whole flap had been brewing for years, of course, the Catholics quite rightly resenting having their children taught bible study every day out of the KJV, the Protestants overreacting the way they always do, by screeching that the Catholics were trying to remove the bible from their children's lives (wattles quivering, no doubt, in every pulpit).

The Democrats were on the right side of this issue, even back then, and the screeching nativist elements (read WASP teabagger types) were the undoing of the Whig Party there and elsewhere.

Christians can't agree on which translation to use of the same book. Laws like this one in Georgia are struck down because wise jurists are not quite as ignorant as politicians and realize that religious riots that have occurred before can happen again, instigated by the same damned bunch in new incarnations.

Nothing new under the sun.

For starters, the First Amendment directly contradicts several commandments, all by itself.

Is everything closed down and locked up on "the sabbath"? Are people fined or arrested for working on Sunday (or Saturday if that is your sabbath)?

What a bunch of hooey! There are so many of the "commandments" that we, as a country, ignore.

Tell those protestant and catholic fundies that US law is all based on Jewish law. They'll love that!