The Muslim student was then harassed by other students for refusing the Bible. Last year, students at high schools throughout the South defiantly led prayers before football games despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning the practice. In Whitley City, Ky., Judge-Executive Jimmie Greene vowed he'd go to jail before he removed the Ten Commandments from the wall of the McCreary County courthouse. More than 100 supporters rallied outside the U.S. courthouse in London last month to support Greene and other elected leaders from McCreary, Pulaski and Harlan counties. The ACLU had asked federal judge to hold them in contempt of court for not obeying an order to take them down.
Common sense dictates that that's the height of inconsistency.
The Supreme Court building's representation of the Ten Commandment is in the form of a frieze showing the giving of the laws to Moses. Commandments six through 10, written in Hebrew, are partially visible. Merritt says many people see the government as being hostile toward Christianity instead of neutral. There is definitely a battle going on for the soul and heart of America. Don Disney and his wife, Judy, said that was part of the reason they wanted to open the high school chapel.