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June 8, 2006
Rewriting the Ten Commandments
Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Cultural Wars has a very funny post on the efforts of the Louisiana legislature to edit the wording of the Ten Commandments so it can harmonize the various English versions.
Here is my favorite part of the news article Ed references,
The committee didn’t settle on the version to include but did amend the more Protestant-oriented version in the bill after a civil-rights lobbyist noted some disparities."It says ‘murder’ rather than ‘kill,’” said Michael Malec, noting the Sixth Commandment, which commonly reads “Thou shalt not kill.”
“We can change that,” replied Rep. Peppi Bruneau, R-New Orleans, who handled the bill for its absent author, Sen. James David Cain, R-Dry Creek.
While the committee was at it, Bruneau said it might as well change the spelling of “honor” in the Fifth Commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother” — which in the bill was spelled “honour.”
Ed liked this passage also.
Posted by Duane Smith at June 8, 2006 7:01 PM | Read more on Religion |
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