{"id":6888,"date":"2004-12-09T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/09\/take-ten.html"},"modified":"2004-12-09T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:28:42","slug":"take_ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/take_ten.html","title":{"rendered":"Take Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bush administration, saying that religion “has played a defining role” in the nation’s history, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to permit Ten Commandments displays in courthouses. The Justice Department today filed a brief supporting two Kentucky counties accused of violating the constitutional ban on government establishment of religion by posting framed copies of the Ten Commandments. <\/p>\n

“Official acknowledgement and recognition of the Ten Commandments’ influence on American legal history comport with the Establishment Clause,” the administration argued in a brief filed with the court in Washington.<\/p>\n

I’ve debated before how much actual influence the Ten Commandments has had on American legal history (not nearly as much, I think, as folk assert), and the degree to which the Ten Commandments are religious laws, not civil ones, but I would be willing to accept public displays of the Decalogue to that end … if other such foundational documents — including bits from Hammurabi, from the Roman codes, etc. — were similarly displayed.<\/p>\n

If you don’t do that, then you’re celebrating religious <\/em>history, not legal <\/em>history. And that’s probably not proper for government sites, unless you’re going to allow equal time for alternative views.<\/p>\n

That seems pretty simple and straightforward to me.<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swell. The Bush administration, saying that religion “has played a defining role” in the nation’s history, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to permit Ten Commandments displays in courthouses. 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