The 10 Commandments are back in the news. A federal appeals court this week ruled that it’s fine for them to be printed on posters and tacked to the wall in Texas public school classrooms. The plaintiffs in the case are poised to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court of the United States, so the fate of this law remains uncertain.

The majority opinion noted that “No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe them, or affirm their divine origin,” so the law’s requirements are essentially passive and pretty benign. But liberals continue to regurgitate the same arguments they have since the 1962 Engel v. Vitale decision outlawing voluntary, nondenominational prayer in public schools. But there’s more to this issue than concerns over the First Amendment’s prohibition on the government establishing a religion.

Increasingly, the political agenda and behaviors of the progressive left are antithetical to the Commandments. It was on display this week when Marxist commentator Hasan Piker spoke at length about why he supports theft and why we should take other people’s property. Piker also tried to justify the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, accusing the dead executive of “engaging in a tremendous amount of social........

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