{"id":8081,"date":"2009-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/01\/appeals-court-denies-rehearing-of-10-commandments-case\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T12:00:00","slug":"appeals-court-denies-rehearing-of-10-commandments-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/01\/appeals-court-denies-rehearing-of-10-commandments-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Denies Rehearing of 10 Commandments Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/10th-circuit-denies-en-banc-review-in.html\">religionclause.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA, USA, July 31, 2009: By a vote of 6 &#8211; 6 yesterday, the judges on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a rehearing in a Ten Commandments case.<\/p>\n<p>The case in question was a June 8, 2009, decision called Green v. Haskell County Board of Commissioners, in which the court held that a display of a Ten Commandments monument on the lawn of the county courthouse in Stigler, Oklahoma, violated the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution (&#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;US Const., Amend. 1). The court concluded that the particular history of this monument&#8211; including the religious motivation of its backers&#8211; meant that a reasonable observer would view the monument as having the impermissible primary effect of endorsing one particular religion.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Gorsuch wrote in a dissent, &#8220;displays of the decalogue (the ten commandments) alongside other markers of our nation&#8217;s legal and cultural history do not threaten an establishment of religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: religionclause.blogspot.com OKLAHOMA, USA, July 31, 2009: By a vote of 6 &#8211; 6 yesterday, the judges on the U.S.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}