The following letter was in today's Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City:

Honor will of the people

The church/state argument would not go on if the courts read the Constitution without prejudice. It says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

The courts are using the first clause improperly to destroy the second one.

Did the government require the Ten Commandments to be placed in a government building? If not, then the will of the people who did it "shall not be infringed." The government cannot order its placement nor order its removal if it were put there by the people.

So, government, keep your secular hands off of the religious will of the people.

Robert W. English
Salt Lake City

I wonder if if occurred to anyone that the courts no longer seem this as a government by the people. I'm sure that the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington don't. At best they see Americans in an "us v. them" light. I don't know if it's possible to get over this, since democracy seems to create partisanship which is, it seems, the essence of politics.