[When do you want the Ten Commandments crow barred off of the Supreme Court?]
Tomorrow.
Maybe you can replace with a nice I.W.W. mural.
Maybe replace it with a copy of the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments.
That's called the rule of law, Roscoe. There's no criminal penalty for coveting neighbor wives or taking Lord's names in vain or ignoring the Sabbath.
All that document does is scream to an American Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim or Native American: "Your individual standing and inalienable American rights, as a non Christian, are compromised in this Court of Law.'
That's unacceptable. I can go 30-40 minutes at a time without gazing at the Ten Commandments. Got em memorized in fact. I don't need that affirmation in the Courthouse, my rights to a fair trial will be protected by the United States Constitution, not the Ten Commandments.
I am thinking a piece of Socialist Realism would brighten it up if they leave a hole there. something to honor the ACLU for their fine work of Cultural Revolutionizing ...
Here's a link describing the ACLU game plan ...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/watson/watson33.html "It is quite simply new theology versus old theology and the ACLU ought to stand for Atheistic Civil Liberties Union rather than anything which recognises the role of Christianity in influencing and shaping American history from the lowliest farm hand to the greatest president.
...Such is the panacea offered by an ACLU inspired vision. A seat at the table of a polytheistic society but the chief place belonging to secular humanism whose self-appointed destiny is to hold all these "patently false" beliefs in check and balance until man "grows up" and rejects them.
All the ACLU and its ilk now desires is that the modern-day emperor has the secular equivalent of ""In hoc Signo vinces" to dazzle his vision. The trouble is that the product on offer is so Frankenstein in its insipid fragmented, sterile and uninspiring political correctness that not even a god could convince anyone that this was a great market brand.
That is why such organisations lobby for a socialist-type system where price and protectionist controls are analogised into beliefs control. Each "product" must be kept under strict anti-competitive laws, which forbid them from having too much market share. Thus, the brand-name logos of Christianity as exemplified in public Decalogue monuments are the equivalent of a historic monopoly that must be subjected to anti-trust laws and broken up.
To this end the ACLU's interpretation of the First Amendment is vital. What would blow it clean out of the water would be the privatisation of the public school system. The majority of the American population is overwhelmingly christian in profession which makes this ban on public christian symbols all the more ludicrous and putting education to float in the free market would revitalise the christian-school sector so much that the ACLU would become a veritable voice in the humanist wilderness. There isn’t a thing they could do about private Christian schools erecting a forest of Ten Commandments monuments right outside their own offices!"