The Establishment Clause and Separation of Church and State Have Been All But Abolished by Courts

Since 2007, Bloomfield, New Mexico has permitted local citizens to finance the construction of various historical monuments on its city hall lawn. The monuments commemorate key texts, and affirm the historical influence of these texts on the United States.

In this public venue, a group of citizens chose to fund a Ten Commandments monument to stand alongside other commemorations of important documents, like the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address. Bloomfield allows the city hall lawn to be used as a forum so that local residents may, on their own time and with their own money, commemorate history.

No public funds were used to install the monuments, but the ACLU eventually filed suit on behalf of two local residents anyway, claiming that the Ten Commandments monument was unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in favor of the ACLU’s position.

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