Posting the Ten Commandments Does Not Establish a Religion

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry.

The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments that had stood on the grounds of the Texas state Capitol since 1961 violated the First Amendment.

That amendment says in part: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”