Rob Boston has an interesting post at Talk2Action about a group called the Ten Commandments Commission. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has actually submitted a resolution, HR 598, lauding this organization and saying that Congress “supports the goals of the Ten Commandments Commission and recognizes the vital contributions of America’s tens of thousands of spiritual leaders, churches, synagogues, fellowships, ministries, and organizations” working with them. Their goal is the establishment of a Ten Commandments Day.
The group is pretty much a Who’s Who of the religious right – Paul Crouch, Pat Robertson, Jay Sekulow, Benny Hinn, Richard Roberts, David Barton, Gary Bauer, James Dobson, and so forth. Even Ted Haggard’s name is still on the list. But the project is led by Ron Wexler, an Orthodox Jew with more than a few wacky ideas. Joseph Grant Swank, a past winner of the Robert O’Brien Trophy, quotes Wexler on Hurricane Katrina:
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