I had noticed it, and it bothered me. It wasn't long after Suetkamp, an atheist, noticed this monument that he decided to support a lawsuit trying to remove it. I wasn't real sure what to expect. I'd expected some backlash, some negative responses, and there was some. Mainly, the response was a public outcry and a movement to keep the commandments in front of City Hall.
Activists say the suit organized and energized the city s devout.
A federal judge in South Bend recently agreed, and the case is now in front of a federal appeals court. This means that this factory worker's lawsuit is two steps away from the Supreme Court. Obviously, there are two extremes in this issue, he said. By putting up one set of ideas, you're privatizing the government, or endorsing it, through that one set of beliefs. Recently, the Elkhart school board shot down a proposal to post the commandments in the schools.