The state of Alabama may get more Ten Commandments displays on public property if a proposed constitutional amendment passes next week.
Voters on Tuesday will decide whether to amend the state constitution so that the Ten Commandments can be displayed on public property, provided it is done so “in a manner that complies” with federal “constitutional requirements”
Known as Amendment 1, the proposal could lead to more displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools and on government land — perhaps surrounded by historical documents to make them more palatable to U.S. constitutional law.
Mat Staver, president and founder of the legal group Liberty Counsel, supports the amendment.
“It doesn’t change what the U.S. Supreme Court would do on something of this nature other than in that area it would give comfort, I guess, or some guidance to the display of the Ten Commandments,” Staver told he Associated Press.
Randall Marshall of the ACLU of Alabama said the amendment could lead to lawsuits.
“A school district just posting the Ten Commandment as a stand alone document is going to find themselves getting sued. It’s going to be held to be unconstitutional,” Marshall told AP.
The amendment reads, in part, “Property belonging to the state may be used to display the Ten Commandments, and the right of a public school and public body to display the…
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