Separation of Church and State, or...?

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There's a great hoo-hah going on in Federal Court over a judge in Alabama refusing to remove the following piece of statuary from court property:



Now, the way I see it (without being able to read all the engraving on the front of the work), this is a representation of the socio-historial foundation of Western law as much as any sort of religious representation (which is what the judge is leaning towards).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a lot of British common law (on which a lot of American law bases precedent) derive from Christian-institutional interpretation of Hamnurabi and Hwyel Dda? Doesn't make it right, wrong or otherwise, but it's the mindset behind the very law being practiced in this building in Birmingham, Alabama.

So therefore:

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