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« Four Hundred Seminary Students, Church Leaders, and Families Attend Uniting Church and Family Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina | Main | Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker Issues Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on State Display of the Ten Commandments »

Ten Commandments or Ten Opinions?

Pick the former unless you want to wade through nearly 150 pages of dense U.S. Supreme Court legal jargon explaining why a Kentucky courthouse may or may not keep a display of the Ten Commandments (“may not” carried the day, by a 5/4 vote of the justices) and why a Texas statehouse may or may not keep its display of the Ten Commandments (“may” carried the day here, by a different 5/4 vote).

That’s right. It took the U.S. Supreme Court ten opinions and nearly 150 pages in total to micromanage two state displays of the Ten Commandments, even though the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies to Congress, not the states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion....”

Read the whole article here.