Our Very Own Everett Is Wasting Money on a X Commandments Case

Everett Fights to Continue Violating Separation Clause

Mayor Ray Stephanson has been telling neighborhood groups that one reason the city needs to continue cutting programs and services is because of unanticipated legal expenses, including the Ten Commandments case.

Or -- and this could just be a crazy, off-the-wall idea -- the city could try NOT violating the separation clause of the First Amendment, thereby avoiding having to defend an indefensible position and wasting $100K of Everett taxpayers' money! I know, it's a pretty revolutionary idea, so give it a minute to sink in.

The city maintains that the granite monument, which the Everett Eagles donated to the city in 1959, is a historic landmark that promotes universal values and legal principles, not a particular religion.

The universal value of worshipping no god other than that of Christianity? Yeah. And the legal principal of obeying your parents? Mmhmmm...lots of kids rotting away in the city jail over that one.