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  • How Much Religion Can Legally Be in Gov't?

    08/22/2003 11:09:49 PM PDT · by calvin1 · 7 replies · 234+ views
    Friday, August 22, 2003 | Associated Press
    A frieze depicting Moses holding two tablets with the Ten Commandments is fixed high above the justices' bench at the Supreme Court, one of several places the biblical law is represented in the marbled building. But those same justices this week rejected a request to allow a 5,300-pound granite marker with the Ten Commandments carved into it to stay in Alabama's Judicial Building. It's another illustration of the seemingly conflicting messages about how much religion can legally be in government. God is in the details -- even the grand designs -- of the republic. Some of the expressions of religion...