The ACLU, in wanting to sue the state of Louisiana, has done us a great favor. Their lawsuit was big news in the secular media, and so the Ten Commandments have been featured in many outlets, from Newsweek, Time magazine, USA Today, and the New York Times to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and Fox. They’ve been featured on huge podcasts, on The View, and all throughout social media. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel even quoted all of the Ten Commandments to his massive viewing audience. You can’t buy that sort of publicity!

I therefore sent them a huge gift basket—filled with all sorts of delicious chocolates—and a thank you card that said: “Thank you for publicizing the Ten Commandments. America needs to be reminded of God’s Law, and you’ve certainly done that. Very grateful.”

America is no different than Old Testament Israel who forgot the Ten Commandments and consequently gave themselves to sin. And the reason they did so was because of the sin of idolatry. When we forsake the Law—which forbids making up false gods and committing adultery—we tend to make up our own congenial image of God and run headlong into sexual sin. And that’s what’s happened to the United States.

The only thing that will wake up a nation to its sin is a fresh look at the Ten Commandments (see Romans 7:7). This was the case when King Josiah read the Law and suddenly saw the serious nature of sin. He said:

2 Kings 22:13 KJV – “…Great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.”

The World’s Concern

The secular world’s big concern is that showing the Ten Commandments to kids is an egregious mixing of church and state. However, the “separation” of church and state is a myth. James Madison, the fourth president of the US, known as the “Father of the Constitution,” said this:

We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777. And as you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on the lower portion of each door.

So, God bless the ACLU for making this such big news. God is still turning what men mean for evil into that which is for the good.

Ray Comfort is the Founder and CEO of Living Waters, a bestselling author, and cohost of the award-winning television program Way of the Master, which airs in 190 countries.