The former Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice, whose past crusades included Ten Commandment displays in Alabama, said he is confident the law will be upheld by the Supreme Court.
Former Chief Justice Roy Moore stands next to his Ten Commandments monument after moving it into the office of the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery on Feb. 11, 2020. Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has a fan in Alabama, one who has been an old soldier in past culture war battles to get the Ten Commandments displayed in public venues.
The displays will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.” The displays must be put into place in classrooms by the start of 2025. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the Ten Commandments law in Kentucky served no secular purpose but rather was for a plainly religious purpose.
“Alabama dropped the ball,” Young said, adding that state lawmakers nationwide now have a “blueprint” by which to go by with Louisiana’s new law. The Ten Commandments standoff led to national fame, and Moore did consider a presidential bid in 2012. He, instead, won back his state Supreme Court seat in a competitive race against Democrat Bob Vance. Moore did not bring back the Ten Commandments display, but he was suspended for ordering state judges to defy the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2015 legalizing same-sex marriage and instead have them enforce a state ban on such marriages.
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