The Ten Commandments are back on display in Alabama’s judicial headquarters.
On Feb. 5, workers installed a display containing a manuscript of the Ten Commandments as well as other historic law documents in the rotunda of the state’s Judicial Building in Montgomery. The display is located near where the state’s new-deposed Chief Justice Roy Moore had installed a different display of the Decalogue.
That display, which was removed by federal court order Aug. 27, was a 5,280-pound granite monument that featured, on top, a carving of the Protestant King James Version of the Commandments.
However, the new exhibit is different. It contains a reproduction of the oldest known manuscript of the Commandments alongside seven other historic legal documents, including the Constitution and the Magna Carta.
Federal courts have said educational exhibits that include the Commandments with other historic law documents are constitutionally permissible.
(ABP)
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