Atheists excited that the Ten Commandments display will no longer be seen may have only temporary cause to celebrate, because it looks like they’ll be seeing the display in thousands of other places around the community instead.
Three Pennsylvania churches have responded to the removal of a Ten Commandments display on public high school property by distributing 1,500 signs that feature God’s famed rules for humanity.
Debate raged earlier this year when the New Kensington-Arnold School District removed the Ten Commandments display from Valley High School.
Then churches handed out signs featuring the Ten Commandments all over town to residents who were interested in taking a stand on the dispute; locals then posted the placards in their yards.
Father John Moineau of Immaculate Conception and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton told The Christian Post that he felt it was a good opportunity for people to defend religious freedom.
Moineau said, “it was to offer a reminder to every person who saw the signs that God commands people to love others, to show mercy and to remember a “merciful God that forgives.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist activist group, claimed victory earlier this year after the New Kensington-Arnold School District announced plans to remove the six-foot Ten Commandments display.
For now, the battle is over, but the presence of the Ten Commandments on private property is more pronounced than ever.