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June 28, 2005

The Ten Commandments

by kim @ 10:23 am. Filed under Uncategorized

I’ve been trying to mend the hair that got split in yesterday’s twin Ten Commandment decisions: (Globe and Mail)

By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that the Ten Commandments in two Kentucky courthouses must be removed because their clearly religious message threatens the separation of church and state, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Yet in a separate case, the court ruled that a two-metre-high granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in a park outside the Texas state legislature delivers “a predominantly secular message” and is therefore completely permissible.

And then it struck me. What the court is trying to say is that public religious displays should be safe, legal, and rare.

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