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Saturday, 20 August 2005

Nebraska 10 Commandments Constitutional

Filed under: SCOTUS and The Law |

Get a load of this: the ACLU loses a Nebraska case dealing with you know what! The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that having a Ten Commandments monument on public property IS Constitutional and cites a recent SCOTUS decision, Van Orden v. Perry:

“The Ten Commandments monument had stood on the Texas State Capitol grounds for forty years without legal challenge. In Justice Breyer’s view, ‘those 40 years suggest more strongly than can any set of formulaic tests that few individuals…are likely to have understood the monument as amounting, in any significantly detrimental way, to a government effort’ to promote, endorse, or favor religion.
“Like the Ten Commandments monument at issue in Van Orden, the Plattsmouth monument makes passive-and permissible-use of the text of the Ten Commandments to acknowledge the role of religion in our Nation’s heritage.”

A good piece of news, indeed! I’d like to see the ACLU try that stuff out here with OUR Ten Commandments monument:

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