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• Stacked Decalogue | Spelled out in all their ancient splendor, though, the commandments are a decidedly odd set of directives to be looming, physically or spiritually, over an American courtroom (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
  
  
• Thunder rolls? | God in the hands of angry humans (Dave Shiflett, National Review Online)
  
  
• A land of constitutional disenchantment? | If people of religious persuasion, or no religious persuasion at all, can be so easily converted or offended by a public display of the Ten Commandments or the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, heaven help them the next time they receive an e-mail from a representative of a Nigerian prince who needs a bank account number to deposit millions he cannot get to because of government instability. (Dave Henry, Amarillo Globe-News)
  
  
• Sacred texts, used and abused | A courthouse in Alabama, an execution in Florida (Michael Knox Beran, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Letter of the law eludes manly Justice Moore | We don't believe Moore's decision to install the Ten Commandments monument in the justice building in Montgomery, Ala., violated the First Amendment. We do believe, however, that when a federal district judge and the rest of the Alabama Supreme Court say otherwise, that Moore should have removed the monument then and there. (Editorial, Amarillo Globe-News)
  
  
• Some embrace 'outside agitators' now | The Ten Commandments monument case continues to weigh down the mailbag here. (Jim Earnhardt, Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Ala. protesters are distracted by trivialities | Ten Commandments battle diverts believers from important work (Cal Thomas)
  
  

Education:

• D.C. vouchers clear Senate panel; democrats vow fight | Senate Appropriations Committee votes 16 to 12 (The Washington Post)
  
  
• D.C. vouchers on track in House | House Republican leaders are moving ahead on a $17 million school-choice plan for the District, amid concerns that some lawmakers may have been swayed by the National Education Association's anti-voucher campaign during the August congressional recess (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Feinstein will endorse D.C. vouchers | The former San Francisco mayor, a longtime voucher foe, said she changed her position only in the case of the District's pilot program and does not support taxpayer-funded private school scholarships in California or elsewhere in the country (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Catholic university opens doors | School officials tout orthodox environment (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• 'Killer' Christ icon is removed from Hermitage display | An ancient icon depicting Christ has been removed from display at the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg after claims that its "energy field" is killing staff (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Rest, prayer, and a happy hour | At a home in the Bronx, retired priests ponder eternity as they read theology, contemplate and await the 5:15 p.m. cocktail hour (The New York Times)
  
  
• Prayer marked final minutes | Even as their minivan filled with water, Robert and Melissa Rogers tried to comfort their four young children, singing Bible songs and praying (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Baylor's savior fell hard from grace | When Dave Bliss arrived at Baylor in 1999, he was seen as the God-fearing savior of a basketball program that had soured into one of the nation's worst (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Pope condemns violence in Mideast and Africa, African church leaders talk about priorities, Idaho's Ten Commandments monuments provoke few complaints, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Top-dollar sale urged for KOCE | Orange Coast faculty advises station owners to take the highest price, even if it's from televangelists (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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