Courts Reconsider Ten Commandments

The US Supreme Court once ruled 5-4 that displaying the Ten Commandments were unconstitutional in public schools. Now a couple of states are trying again, and it is back in the courts.

This is a story of the rise and fall of the Lemon Test. The LT was concocted from judicial supremacist thinking and then applied to neutralize anything Christians wanted to do. It meant that if Christians favored something, then it did not have a secular purpose, so it failed the LT and was unconstitional.

The peak was this case. The crux of the case was that a book had to be banned from the school library because the lawsuit discovered that an unpublished draft used some terminology that indicated some religious beliefs, and the author subsequently edited the book to make it more secular. But by the LT, the religious purpose could not be removed, so the book was hopelessly contaminated.

Supposedly the LT is dead. If so, good riddance. If not, this 10C case should clarify the issue.