FRANKFORT, Kentucky (CWNews.com)

    A federal judge overturned a state law on Tuesday that had authorized the display of the Ten Commandments on a monument erected on the grounds of the state Capitol.

    US District Judge Joseph Hood said the US Constitution prohibits the state of Kentucky from expressing "its faith in the Ten Commandments." Hood rejected lawmakers' claims they were only trying to highlight the Decalogue's significance to cultural and legal history. He said the "purpose of this is not secular. I think it's religious."

    The law had been challenged by the Kentucky chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, but they did not challenge the parts of the law that encouraged school districts to display the Ten Commandments. State officials have not yet decided whether to appeal the decision.

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