Rich Lowry on Establishment Clause on National Review Online

The title on Mr. Lowry's column is "Thou Shalt Make No Sense: Commandments and confused jurisprudence."

As Mr. Lowry says, for most of American history, the First Amendment has been taken to mean exactly what it says: The U.S. Government can't establish a religion. It's only recently that is has become

...the long-running absurdist drama known as "Supreme Court Establishment Clause Jurisprudence."...

Besides, Lowry asks, if the government is trying to establish a religion by allowing the Ten Commandments to be posted, which one are they trying to establish? Judaism? Reform or orthodox? Roman Catholic? Lutheran? Seventh-Day Adventist. What? (His list is longer, actually.)

If government has gone to the trouble of establishing a religion, shouldn't all of us know which one? Or is this just another case of government's notorious bureaucratic inefficiency? It meant to establish a religion, but memos got crossed somewhere and it couldn't agree on its fundamental tenets?

Bless Mr. Lowry's heart for being able to discuss this in a civilized manner.