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Stacked Decalogue
Pollitt, Katha | September 22, 2003 issue

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The article comments on the appropriateness of placing monument carved with the Ten Commandments in courtrooms. The removal of a granite carved with the Ten Commandments from the Montgomery courtroom in Alabama is controversial. The author argues for its removal, claiming that the commandments are a decidedly odd set of directives over a courtroom. She also adds that the commandments has little to do with the civil and criminal codes of the state since it deals mostly with God's status and preoccupation with Himself.

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EDITORIALS; TEN commandments; CHRISTIAN ethics; MONUMENTS; MONTGOMERY (Ala.); ALABAMA
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