Ten Commandments Display Changes In Maumelle
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Maumelle judge is modifying a display of the
Ten Commandments in his courtroom to include other "historical
documents."
District Judge David Pake made the changes after conferring with
the Rutherford Institute, a Virginia-based conservative civil
liberties group.
Institute officials say Pake asked for advice in light of the
legal battle over a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama. Pake
added documents that have influenced Western law, including the
Declaration of Independence.
The institute says Pake posted the 11-by-14 inch copy of the Ten
Commandments in 1994 and received no complaints until August of
this year, when the head of the Arkansas chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union -- Rita Sklar -- was quoted in a newspaper
story.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
