Legal Opinion
Glassroth v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 2003No. Nos. 02-16708, 02-16949PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court installed a two-and-one-half ton monument to the Ten Commandments as the centerpiece of the rotunda in the Alabama State Judicial Building. He did so in order to remind all Alabama citizens of, among other things, his belief in the sovereignty of the Judeo-Christian God over both the state and the church. And he rejected a request to permit a monument displaying a historically significant speech in the same space on the grounds that “[t]he placement of a speech of any man alongside the revealed law of God would tend in…
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