The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year. The administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, Paul Clement, told justices in Wednesday's filing that Ten Commandments displays are common around the nation and in the court's own building, the Capitol and national monuments.
"Reproductions and representations of the Ten Commandments have been commonly employed across the country to symbolize both the rule of law itself, as well as the role of religion in the development of American law," Clement wrote. Clement said the displays are important in educating people "about the nation's history and celebrating its heritage."
[Okay, that sounds fair. Let's also make sure to note that there are several unresolvably contradictory accounts of 'The Ten Commandments.' So to be sure that we celebrate our nation's heritage, we should post all of them. And all the main texts of all religions, existant and past, to make sure we honor the 'religious freedom' of all people. And all the main texts of secular thinking, too, just for fun. At all the buildings, in all of the United States. In six foot granite tablets. That sounds like a great use of tax dollars.]
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