US Supreme Court rules on 10 Commandment displays

(28 June 2005 - RV) The US Supreme Court has ruled that putting a framed copy of the ten commandments in a county courthouse in Kentucky violates church-state separation.
However, it did allow a monument of the commandments on state capitol grounds in Texas.
The two 5-4 rulings attempt to distinguish between neutral displays that honour the nation's legal history,and those that are unconstitutional in breaking the church-state separation.
Charles Wilson is executive director of the St Joseph's Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. He says the rulings are confusing...