From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701  wrote:   
   >On Feb 22, 2026 at 1:03:06 AM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>I wonder if BTR1701 agrees with me that the Louisiana statute requiring   
   >>display of the Ten Commandments is an unconstitutional Establishment.   
      
   >It apparently isn't unconstitutional for them to be displayed on the   
   >walls of the Supreme Court itself, so I can't imagine why they'd be   
   >unconstitutional in Louisiana.   
      
   That this crap is still debated 2 & 1/2 centuries into our history is   
   due to the Suppreme Court's reluctance to decide. Remember the session   
   with two contradictory opinions about religious displays at courthouses?   
   The first was historic and not unconstitional, the second was not   
   historic so unconstitional.   
      
   >>Here's the King James Version. I got a kick out of the state's argument   
   >>that "Don't kill or steal shouldn't be controversial". I'm not seeing   
   >>secular language in Thou shalt have no other gods before me.   
      
   >Yeah, they should probably trim it to The Seven Commandments or something.   
      
   Let's ask Mel Brooks to edit.   
      
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