Debating on whether the Ten Commandments should be posted is SO nineties.  Today the issue is:  Who ELSE gets to post their religious stuff in public spaces?

One example:  The Supreme Court will soon hear a case brought by a religion called Summum that wants to post its Seven Aphorisms near a display of the Ten Commandments in a Utah park.  Founded in the mid-seventies, Summum believes that Moses received the Seven Aphorisms at the same time that he received the Ten Commandments, but revealed them to only a few of his students because Israel wasn’t ready for them.

Another example: Just up the road in Crossville, TN, a tongue-in-cheek religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has already installed a statue of its “god” on the courthouse lawn.  This religion apparently exists to provide satire of religion and to challenge thinking on issues such as public religious displays.

Will such developments cause us evangelicals to switch course and argue for a religion-free public square?