Faith-based groups are once again asking the U.S. Postal Service to publish a stamp honoring the Ten Commandments.
An alliance led by Faith and Action and the Christian Defense Coalition today presented petitions from all 50 states asking for the stamp.
In 2001, a request for a Ten Commandments commemorative stamp was denied by the Postal Service. An advisory commission deemed it "religious." But, shortly after that, it issued two stamps with Muslim themes.
Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, called it a blatant example of hypocrisy.
“We’re just allowing the vocal minority to rule the day," he told Family News in Focus. "What the Postal Service is doing is just the politically correct, accepted position.”
Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said, “We think the Ten Commandments postage stamp would affirm the core values that have knit our country together for over two centuries.”
He said the government may fear a lawsuit, but Hiram Sasser, an attorney with the Liberty Legal Institute, said since the U.S. government is largely based on biblical principles, it should honor the Ten Commandments.
"It’s perfectly constitutional and legal to have them appear on a postage stamp," he said. "Certainly, if that were not true, then the Ten Commandments would have to be removed from various displays at the National Archives or at the U.S. Supreme Court building.”
