FRANKFORT, Ky. — A lawsuit to block a 7-foot-tall Ten Commandments monument from the Kentucky capitol grounds has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The July 10 ACLU filing takes aim at a resolution passed by the Kentucky legislature slated to take effect July 15 to permanently display the monument just behind the capitol building in Frankfort.
Kentucky has been a Ten Commandments battleground since 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Stone vs. Graham decision invalidated state legislation requiring Ten Commandments postings in public schools.
The legislation, Senate Joint Resolution 57, calls for the Ten Commandment monument’s placement at the capitol “in order to remind Kentuckians of the biblical foundations of the laws of the Commonwealth.” The ACLU news release called the legislative action a violation of the First amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids government from endorsing or favoring religion. The suit seeks an order to prevent the monument’s placement at the statehouse.
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