Any reaction to yesterday's rulings by the Supreme Court on the Ten Commandments?
In separate rulings, the Court held that a granite marker of the Commandments outside of the Texas satehouse was OK but that the Commandments posted in Kentucky courthouses was not. The major difference appears to be intent: the Texas marker has historical overtones, while the Kentucky displays have religious rootings.
Was anything, in yor opinion, clarified?
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Only that the judgments were delivered in a courtroom inside which itself there is a stone frieze depicting one of the Ten Commandments Not only that, inside the room, but the rear facade of the Supreme Court building shows Moses holding the two tablets of the Ten Commandments .
Something tells me that they were going to have to find a legal and factual nicety somewhere
Italy's different. Reuters reported yesterday, from Rome, that an Italian judge had been barred because he refused to work in courts adorned with a crucifix. Luigi Tosti said that the cross discriminated against defendants of other faiths, or none.
This is part of the clash between secularists and those who want to assert Europe's Christian traditions.
Not only that, inside the room, but the rear facade of the Supreme Court building shows Moses holding the two tablets of the Ten Commandments .
