Originally Posted by Wow Civic
I did not make this story up either. I heard of it on FOX News and found information not on the threatening lawsuit but on the information on what exactly is on the walls of the Supreme Court building: "The Supreme Court building in Washington, DC features a frieze of Moses carrying two numbered tablets signifying the Commandments alongside depictions of Hammurabi, Solon and other historical figures." The ACLU wanted the all symbols and anything that signified the "Ten Commandments" out of public buildings. This included the two numbered tablets that signified the Commandments in the SUPREME COURT building. (Not the Capitol; I heard this story on Fox when the entire case was popular and a lawyer from the ACLU was complaining something along the lines of"How can we get the Supreme Court do agree with us if they themselves have the Ten Commandments in their building?")
Also, the only way the Supreme Court got out of having to take those "Ten Commandment" tablets down was by showing documents, etc. from the designing phase of the building that showed those tablets are not the Ten Commandments, they are the Bill of Rights. The tablets themselves just show a tablet with Roman numerals I thru X on them.
If they had been the 10 commandments, it is highly likely it would have been considered endorsement of religion and therefore not allowed, given the overall context of the courtroom.