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Ten Commandments Statute Becomes Monumental Controversy
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Eagles Ten Commandents monument causes the need for a Supreme Court decision.
On Oct. 12, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a 2003 decision issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Van Ordon v. Perry, 351 F.3d 173 (5th Cir. 2003). In this case, Van Ordon, a resident of Austin, Texas, was seeking to have a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments removed from the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. As characterized in Van Ordon's Supreme Court brief, the Fifth Circuit had concluded that "Texas had permissible secular purposes in placing the monument on government property: honoring the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the monument's donor, for its work …
