In the chambers of the Supreme Court itself, the Ten Commandments are represented in Hebrew. Anyone who didn't just fall off the turnip truck would understand what that sculpture represents. As a practitioner in the Supreme Court, I posit that there's no LEGAL difference between what Chief Judge Moore commissioned for the Alabama Supreme Court and what the then Chief Justice of the United States commissioned for the US Supreme Court itself.
It's like the US Supreme Court's approval for "In God we trust" and chaplains in the military, and chaplains in Congress and in the state legislatures. None of those decisions can be squared with the US SC's other decisions. There is zero intellectual honesty here.
As a member of the Court's bar, I condemn their hypocrisy in strongest terms. As a member of Congress, I would introduce a bill to strip all the federal courts of their jurisdiction to act in this area. (See website in my tagline.)
And, by the way, I come to this issue not as a fire-breathing member of any religion (my religious beliefs are irrelevant to this), but as a fire-breathing defender of the Constitution of the United States.
Billybob
The "In GOd We Trust" doesn't bother me -- either personally, or on behalf of other people. "God" can be and is defined so differently by people with divergent belief systems (including pure science) that I think one has to be awfully think-skinned to get worked up about it. But inscriptions purportedly authored by a self-proclaimed "jealous God" demanding that people "have no other God before me", accompanied only by more inscriptions purportedly authored by the same God, are definitely an infringement on the rights of Americans who do not believe in such a God (and who may believe in a very different God, i.e. in violation of the above mentioned commandment).
"Anyone who didn't just fall off the turnip truck would understand what that sculpture represents"
We'll never know for sure (if they know or not) unless Moore presses to the fullest extent of the law.