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Posting Decalogue OK—sometimes: A split Supreme Court decision

Advocates for church-state separation generally gave a collective sigh of relief last month when the Supreme Court ruled that the posting of the Ten Commandments inside two Kentucky courthouses is unconstitutional. But at the same time the court, closely divided over displays of the Decalogue on government property, said a monument listing the “shalt nots” outside the state capitol building in Texas is permissible.