FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general has announced the state is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that barred the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds.
Attorney General Ben Chandler stated the plan to appeal in a letter to Denis Fleming, general counsel to Gov. Paul Patton.
On July 25, U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood struck down a General Assembly resolution calling for the 6-foot monument to be removed from storage and placed near a giant floral clock on the grounds of the Capitol in Frankfort.
Hood disagreed with monument supporters who said it was a shrine to the legal history of Kentucky. Hood agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union that the erection of the monument would amount to a government endorsement of religion.
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