Ten Commandments Supreme Court Cases: Pew Forum Legal Backgrounder and Event Transcript Now Online
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has published two new, online resources on the Ten Commandments cases before the Supreme Court. They include a Legal Backgrounder on the cases and a transcript of a live Forum event last week featuring two legal church-state experts debating the issue: Jay Sekulow and Douglas Laycock.
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) March 2, 2005 – The Supreme Court is hearing oral
arguments in two cases that concern the placement of Ten Commandments displays
on public property.
Last week, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public
Life held an event at which two of the nation's top experts on church-state
questions, each with his own very different perspective, explained and defended
their opposing views on Ten Commandments displays and the two Supreme Court
cases.
The speakers were:
Douglas Laycock, Associate Dean for
Research and Alice McKean Young Regents Chair, University of Texas School of
Law
Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law &
Justice
To read the full transcript of their discussion on Ten
Commandments displays, visit http://www.pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=69.
To
read a legal backgrounder on the two Ten Commandments cases, prepared by the Pew
Forum, visit http://www.pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=70.
The
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life delivers timely, impartial information
to national opinion leaders on issues at the intersection of religion and public
affairs; it also serves as a neutral venue for discussions of these matters. The
Forum is a project of the Pew Research Center.
CONTACT
INFORMATION:
Burke Olsen
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
202-419-4564
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb214286.htm