Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty - Questions about proposed Ten Commandment display in Tennessee county justice center

Watch

SOLID, RELIABLE, CONFIDENT — these are three words that describe the Baptist Joint Committee as we carry out our work every day on Capitol Hill.

From the halls of Congress, to the agencies and in the courts, the BJC works to defend and extend God-given religious liberty for all people.

With its guarantees of our most fundamental freedoms, the First Amendment must be defended if we are to preserve religious liberty for everyone. Our challenge is great, but we are determined to meet it.

For more than 70 years, the BJC has sounded the alarm and fought the battles from our office on Capitol Hill. We are the only religious organization in the country that works solely on religious liberty issues.

As always, we need your financial support to continue to wage the fight for religious liberty.

Won't you make an investment in religious liberty for your children and grandchildren?

Donate

Questions about proposed Ten Commandment display in Tennessee county justice center

Written by Steve Butera

WBIR

A Wisconsin-based organization is questioning the separation of church and state following a proposal by a Hawkins County judge to display the Ten Commandments in their new justice center.

Judge James "Jay" Taylor said he wants to cover a blank wall in the center with three plaques, one of those being the Ten Commandments. He said he's following precedent from another court case in Kentucky with similar circumstances.

"I noticed that in most courthouses there is a 10 Commandments-type display," said Judge Taylor. "There's either a plaque of the 10 Commandments or a Foundations Display."

Click here to read the rest of the article.