Picking a version of the Word of God and posting it in courthouses certainly sounds like state-imposed theocracy to me.
How so? What religion is established? What is the criminal sanction for violating one of the commandments you find less than universal?
Are images of the Code of Hammurabi likewise establishing religion?
"Picking a version of the Word of God and posting it in courthouses certainly sounds like state-imposed theocracy to me."
'sounds like' but "is not".
Sounds like you buy into the sloppy thinking of our modern age, The historical issue of theocracy revolved around the coercion of beliefs - this involved NONE of that. At it is contradictory to what religious freedom really meant to Americans prior to 1963.
There really *was* religious freedom for more Americans than can be found with today's imposed secularism; where is the 'freedom of worship when public expressions of religious sentiment are BANNED? IS THAT NOT A VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF SPEECH AND CONSCIENCE? Think about it!