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OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Op-Ed The L.A. Times laments the law as opening a front in the American cultural war that is deliberately provocative on the part of a specific brand of White Christian Nationalists of monolithic beliefs. More on what is the motivation of such people shortly. It is hard in the US to fix a line between church and state. The editors mention several Supreme Court cases, two involving Kentucky with decisions banning public displays in public schools and in county court houses, and one in Texas allowing such as a cultural display. In the two Kentucky cases the Supreme Court ruled that although Kentucky argued it was reminding people of a most significant cultural foundation the justices stated that the court knew it was Kentucky promoting religion. A Texas monument on public land was allowed because it was a heritage statement not confronting people every day (as in a classroom). Compounding the problem of fixing a line, the Supreme Court building in D.C. has two versions of the Ten commandments in its most prominent […]