Court: Bible display must go
Ruling finds Harris County monument's initial purpose was changed
By HARVEY RICE and BILL MURPHY
Houston Chronicle

A Bible must not be part of a 50-year-old monument in front of the Harris County civil courthouse because a district judge changed it from a secular to a religious use in violation of the Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

"Its recent history would force an objective observer to conclude that it is a religious symbol of a particular faith located on public grounds," a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-1 decision. the rest