Truth becomes a casualty at the Supreme Court

From a letter from the pastor of Lake Almanor Community Church...

After the U.S. Supreme Court guide described the figures on that frieze, including Moses, she asked if there were any questions. I raised my hand and asked, “Are there any other depictions of Moses or the Ten Commandments in or on the U.S. Supreme Court Building?” (I actually knew of at least two other places (even I would later discover four more), but I was hoping she would even share one other....)

There was no hesitation to the guide’s response to my question of whether there were any other depictions of Moses or the Ten Commandments. Her answer was simply and unequivocally, “No.” I must admit I was more than shocked; I was flabbergasted. Almost simultaneously my pastor friend and I, pointed in back of us and asked, “But what about on the doors?” (She knew we were obviously referencing the engravings on the oak doors entering the court). Her response again was immediate and convincing, “Those are the ten amendments.” Now we all were shocked. Racing through my mind were questions like: Were the ten amendments given to our forefathers on tablets??...

I approached the guide in the front of the Courtroom when the tour was over saying, “It is difficult for me to believe that these tablet depictions with the Roman numerals IX were the ten amendments and not the Ten Commandments. What proof is there for those conclusions?” She replied, “If you don’t believe me, go down to the Information Booth of the U.S. Supreme Court, and they will give you documentation.” So I hustled a head [sic] of the group to the official Information Booth, where I approached the woman behind the Both [sic] and told her what the guide said about the inscriptions and engravings being the first ten amendments and not the Ten Commandments. Then I asked for the documentation. She had none for the inside chamber doors....

My last inquiry for the personnel at the Information Booth of the U.S. Supreme Court was this: “If there are no other depictions of Moses or the Ten Commandments on the building except on the South Wall Frieze in the U.S. Supreme Court, then what about on the east side of the building where Moses is the central figure among others, holding both tablets of the Ten Commandments, one in each arm?” Her response shocked me as much as the guide inside the Court chamber. She simply and confidently told me, “There is no depiction of Moses and the Ten Commandments like that on the U.S. Supreme Court.” I looked at her bewildered and used my body to describe the position in which Moses was holding the Ten Commandments. She again responded, “No, sir, there is nothing like that here.” I began to second guess myself, “Where did I see that before? I could have sworn it was here.” (We had not yet seen the east outside of the building on the tour, but simply entered the building from the west side, as others do, yet I remembered seeing the eastern entrance in photographs.) One more time I asked her, “Are you certain Moses and the Ten Commandments are not there?” “Yes, sir. They are not.” So I asked, “Do you have a picture or description of the display on the east side of the Building, leading up to the Court?” She replied, “I certainly do” (and began to thumb through her files.) When she pulled out the piece of paper, with the photo and description of the East Pediment, her eyes widened with surprise. There was Moses in photo and description as the central figure, holding the Ten Commandments, one in each hand. My response was admittedly somewhat flippant but sincere, “I’m certainly glad to know I wasn’t dreaming! And at least now you know so you can tell others. You are, after all, the Information Booth.”

So, it appears anti-Christian bigots have succeeded in getting the tour guides at the Supreme Court building to lie to tourists about the historical prominence of the Bible in US history, even to the point of claiming obvious depictions of the Ten Commandments are of the bill of rights. But that kind of Orwellian revisionism is very typical of the Left in their Crusade to rid the world of any religion that doesn't fit their own.