"Entirely Appropriate" My Fat White Blasphemous Ass!

(Cross-posted from Liberal Street Fighter, where the hits just won't quit!)

So I was driving home listening to "All Things Considered" when they ran Nina Totenberg's story on the Ten Commandments SCOTUS case. As is her wont, she read excerpts of the transcript, so that we little people can get a feel for the back and forth of the oral arguments. One particular exchange set me off pretty good:

Totenberg read Antonin "Fat Tony" Scalia questioning the anti-Commandmenters. "[The Ten Commandments] are a symbol that the government derives its authority from God, and that seems to me entirely appropriate." WTF?

Has that man read a history book? How in the hell can he be fit to serve as an arbiter of what the Constitution says when he doesn't have the first clue where that document draws its moral and legal authority from?

The Constitution is a wholly secular document, based on natural and civil rights of humankind. It owes far more to humanist philosophy than scripture; Madison and Hamilton and Jay and the others who formed the framework of our government and penned the Bill of Rights spent their time at the Constitutional Convention discussing the ancient Greeks and the contemporary French, not the Biblical Hebrews.

Hell, if the Ten Commandments truly were the basis of our system of laws, every teenager in America would be in jail for not honoring their fathers and mothers. I myself would be in the stocks because damned if I remember the last time I honored the Sabbath and kept it holy. How many Republican Congressmen are known adulterers?

Seriously, how in the hell can we allow Constitutional questions to be decided by someone who doesn't know the first thing about the Constitution?