Ten Commandments On the Courthouse Steps?

High court weighs Ten Commandments' display
Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
October 13, 2004

Barely four months after dodging a ruling on the merits of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to examine another heavily freighted symbol of religion in public life: the Ten Commandments.

The justices accepted appeals from two opposing lower-court rulings. One upheld the display of a 6-foot-high Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas state capitol; the other ordered two Kentucky counties to remove framed copies of the commandments from their courthouse walls.

The cases pose the same question: Does display of these images on government property amount to an unconstitutional "establishment" of religion?
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