Alabama Considers 10 Commandments Bill
Supporters of a plan passed by a state Senate committee say it would rewrite Alabama’s constitution to say, in effect, that the Ten Commandments could be displayed on state property.
The Birmingham News reports (http://bit.ly/yZlq3v ) that the plan was passed by the committee on Tuesday.
State Sen. Gerald Dial, a Republican from Lineville, says the proposed amendment also would rewrite the constitution to say the right of a public school or other public body to display the Ten Commandments on its property would not be “restrained or abridged.”
A U.S. district judge in 2002 ruled that a Ten Commandments monument installed in the Alabama state judicial building was unconstitutional because it violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban of a state establishment of religion.
