Thou shalt not...

One of the letters in the Star Tribune neatly demolishes any argument for leaving the monument of the ten commandments in a court building. How? Doing so violates one of the commandments:

The 10th Commandment states: "You shall not covet your neighbor's house." Yet Alabama State Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore and others insist on doing precisely that by abrogating the people's house of justice as their own and insisting that a monument to the Ten Commandments remain in the state judicial building (Star Tribune, Aug. 16).

If Justice Moore wants everyone to live by God's rules, shouldn't he also follow God's rules?

Jim Herzog, Minneapolis.