Americans sue over anything, it seems

Published 9:00 pm Monday, December 22, 2003

I have been following the lawsuit related to the Ten Commandments in the paper for several weeks (News article: Nov. 8 “Thou shalt not relocate, city says”). I find it amazing that an upstanding paper like The Herald would print a front-page article like the one from Nov. 8 (“Thou shalt not relocate, city says”), and even run a picture of Jesse Card with it.

We all know by now this monument containing the Ten Commandments was presented by a great fraternal organization, the Everett Eagles, some 40 years ago, which, by the way, was 20 years before Card was born. How many people have walked by this granite slab in front of the old City Hall and paused to read what it contains, said a prayer or dropped a tear, and moved on? Yet out of nowhere, one individual steps up and files a lawsuit. One, mind you.

I am getting a little concerned with our judicial system in this great country of ours, of things that are happening of late such as the removal of a Supreme Court judge from office for not removing the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse in Alabama.

I would also like to know just who the Washington D.C.-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is. Are they paying for this case and by whose authority? Card’s?

It all leads up to this: You can be sued any time, any place, for anything.

Marysville