Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) Sponsors Bill to Designate First Weekend in May as "Ten Commandments Weekend"

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) sponsors bill to designate the first weekend in May as "Ten Commandments Weekend."

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is sponsoring HR 1175 to designate the first weekend of May as Ten Commandments Weekend, to recognize the significant contributions the commandments have made in shaping civilization and the so-called vital role they played in the development of the institutions and national character of the United States. Isn't this a little hypocritical considering that there are several Republican legislators who have broken at least three of those commandments -- Sen. David Vitter, Sen. Mark Ensign, SC Governor Mark Sanford and Newt Gingrich, for example.

This bill is similar to Sen. Sam Brownback's 2008 Ten Commandments Weekend resolution and Broun included a quote from John Quincy Adams in one of his "Whereas" clauses.

"Whereas the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, declared the Ten Commandments to be 'laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation, which ever professed any code of laws'"

True to form, Broun omits the part of the quote in which Adams made it clear that many of the laws of the Old Testament were "adapted to that time only" and binding only on the ancient Jews, just like Brownback's version. Here's what Adams wrote, in a letter to his son:

"The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes adapted to that time only, and to the particular circumstances of the nation to whom it was given; they could of course be binding upon them, and only upon them, until abrogated by the same authority which enacted them, as they afterward were by the Christian dispensation; but many others were of universal application -- laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation, which ever professed any code of laws."

I can't stand a self-righteous politician and Broun is no better than all the wannabe politicians who say do as I say, but not as I do mentality. It's amazing how hypocritical Rep. Broun is. He doesn't see anything wrong with trying to push his religion on other people.