For some reason, this post didn’t automatically post on Friday as I had thought I set it to do. I’m sure it was user error on my part! 🙂
“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” (2 Timothy 2:8-10 ESV)
A judge in Richland County, OH has been battling the ACLU over displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. You can sign a petition to support him by clicking here. An article by Gongwer News Service is below and you can follow this story at The Tecumseh Project.
ACLU Wants Mansfield (OH) Judge Punished for Continued Display of Ten Commandments-Gongwer News Service May 30, 2008
Seven years after it began, a legal battle resumed Thursday over an Ohio judge’s posting of the Ten Commandments in his Mansfield courtroom.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio asked U.S. District Judge Kathleen O’Malley to require Judge James DeWeese of Richland County common pleas court to explain why he should not be held in contempt for disobeying her order to remove the display.
At issue is a case that dates to March 2001 when the ACLU filed suit contending that display of the religious text in a public building was unconstitutional.
In June 2002 Judge O’Malley ordered immediate removal of the material. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case.
Journeying On 
Courtrooms are not the personal property of judges: they are supposed to be impartial places where legal matter are adjudicated in a fair way, according to the actual laws of the land.
You may really really like the Ten Commandments, but they are not themselves the law or legal statutes, and in fact several of them are patently unconstitutional. Posting a list of non-American laws, that represent the beliefs of one particular religion in a place that’s supposed to be impartial and based solely on American jurisprudence is simply wrong.
It’s great that you want to promote your beliefs. But why do you feel that you require the government to help you do it?