Elkhart, Ind.

The 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals disagrees, finding this DeMille monument before an Indiana municipal building unconstitutional in December 2000, because the "Ten Commandments, standing by themselves [cannot] be stripped of their religious, indeed sacred, significance." The Supremes refused the appeal, but Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justices Scalia and Thomas announced the monument "simply reflects the Ten Commandments' role in the development of our legal system." Justice Stevens' retort: "I am the Lord thy God" is "rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference."