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(Montgomery, Alabama-AP) Feb. 6, 2004 - The Ten Commandments are back in the Alabama Judicial Building, this time in an exhibit that features copies of seven other historical documents.
The display stands just across the rotunda from the spot once occupied by the granite monument to the commandments that cost Roy Moore his job as chief justice.
Acting Chief Justice Gorman Houston says the new display is intended to be permanently based in the rotunda. It includes the Ten Commandments as one of many sources of Western law, an arrangement that courts have found permissible.
Attached to a black Velcro background are photocopies of the oldest known manuscript of the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the US Constitution and other documents.
One of the plaintiffs who sued to have Moore's monument removed says the new display seems acceptable because "it does not appear to have the purpose or effect of promoting religion."
Was this one of the original purposes of Roy Moore's monument?
"It includes the Ten Commandments as one of many sources of Western law, an arrangement that courts have found permissible."
The display stands just across the rotunda from the spot once occupied by the granite monument to the commandments that cost Roy Moore his job as chief justice.
Acting Chief Justice Gorman Houston says the new display is intended to be permanently based in the rotunda. It includes the Ten Commandments as one of many sources of Western law, an arrangement that courts have found permissible.
Attached to a black Velcro background are photocopies of the oldest known manuscript of the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the US Constitution and other documents.
One of the plaintiffs who sued to have Moore's monument removed says the new display seems acceptable because "it does not appear to have the purpose or effect of promoting religion."
Was this one of the original purposes of Roy Moore's monument?
"It includes the Ten Commandments as one of many sources of Western law, an arrangement that courts have found permissible."