A federal judge in Virginia heard arguments yesterday over Ten Commandment displays in Giles County schools. A lawsuit argues the religious display amounts to an official promotion of religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. It is sacred text, after all, with several of the Commandments exclusively focused on religion. In sending the parties to mediation, the judge proposed a very interesting solution:
Judge Michael Urbanski has indicated that he will order the case into mediation, in large part because of the financial cost to the school board if the matter were to be litigated.He said he would want the two sides to look at whether the first four commandments, which are more explicitly religious, could be removed from the display, leaving the other six, more secular, commandments.
“I just wonder if there isn’t a reasonable compromise,” Urbanski said.
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