McCreary

As is often the problem, the issue here was less about the commandments and much more about the foolish steps taken by those involved.

In the case, the court first had only the commandments. Then, after challenged but before the ruling, the legislature required them to put up more documents – specifically tied to their religious proclamations and included a resolution from the same reciting that the Ten Commandments are ‘the precedent legal code upon which the civil and criminal codes of . . . Kentucky are founded,’.

Then, not surprisingly, the court found that the purpose of the display was religious, rather than historical. Even though the state argued that the court shouldn’t pay any attention to the first few displays – only the last one.

As the second 10 commandment case proves, this was not a blanket ban of the commandments (a point the conservatives will make ad nasuem, while still complaining about the ‘activist’ courts.