Originally Posted by Guest

I must have missed something. I don't see the 10 commandments anywhere on the Supreme Court Bldg. I see a sculpture of a guy holding two BLANK tablets. The artist could have chiseled the 10 into that large area but he did not. And here is what the sculptor said
"Law as an element of civilization was normally and naturally derived or inherited in this country from former civilizations. The "Eastern Pediment" of the Supreme Court Building suggests therefore the treatment of such fundamental laws and precepts as are derived from the East. Moses, Confucius and Solon are chosen as representing three great civilizations and form the central group of this Pediment. "

You see Moses is there to represent a civilization not Judaism. And joining him on other court friezes are:
Menes, Hammurabi, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian (south wall); Justinian, Mohammed, Charlemagne, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall and Napoleon

and according to the Curator of the Court:

Weinman's training emphasized a correlation between the sculptural subject and the function of the building and, because of this, [architect Cass] Gilbert relied on him to choose the subjects and figures that best reflected the function of the Supreme Court building. Faithful to classical sources, Weinman designed for the Courtroom friezes a procession of "great lawgivers of history," from many civilizations, to portray the development of secular law.

So no, the ACLU won't be needing to get the 10 commandments removed because they are not there. Notice anything else not being there? Let's see we've got Moses, Mohammed, a few kings, some very old Roman, Greek, Chinese, Babylonian, leaders. Seems the designers missed a guy who supposedly is the most important religious figure in history. How did that happen if our Christian Bible is the guiding document for American law?