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Appeals court orders Ten Commandments monument removed
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Appeals court orders Ten Commandments monument removed
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 Posted: 11:11 PM EDT (0311 GMT)

Light streams across the face of the Ten Commandments memorial in the lobby of the rotunda of the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama.
 http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/01/tencommandments.appeal.ap/index.html  

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Ten Commandments monument the size of a washing machine must be removed from the Alabama Supreme Court building.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a ruling by a federal judge who said that the 2 1/2-ton granite monument, placed there by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

"If we adopted his position, the chief justice would be free to adorn the walls of the Alabama Supreme Court's courtroom with sectarian religious murals and have decidedly religious quotations painted above the bench," the three-judge panel said.

"Every government building could be topped with a cross, or a menorah, or a statue of Buddha, depending upon the views of the officials with authority over the premises."

Moore put the monument in the rotunda of the courthouse in the middle of the night two summers ago. The monument features tablets bearing the Ten Commandments and historical quotations about the place of God in law.

He was sued by several attorneys who said the monument infringed on their religious freedom. In November, a federal judge ordered the monument removed but then decided it could stay pending appeal.

11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion: Glassroth v. Moore
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/religion/glsrthmre70103opn.pdf

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