Congressman Patrick McHenry today railed against the U.S. Supreme Court’s McCreary County v. ACLU decision, which outlawed the display of the Ten Commandments on public lands.

The court ruled 5-4 that displaying the Ten Commandments in government buildings or property violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

“Today’s decision is another example of the federal courts legislating their personal values from the bench,” said Congressman McHenry. “The First Amendment was designed to protect the church from the federal government – not vice versa – and today’s decision is another attack by the judiciary on all people of faith. Don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t lie – these are universal values. This court is attacking the rights of people of faith, and as a Congress we must find ways to balance its behavior.”

As a way of tempering an increasingly active judiciary, Congressmen McHenry and John Culberson (R-TX-7) have sponsored a Constitutional Amendment to term-limit federal district court judges.

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