{"id":3345,"date":"2007-09-10T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/jesus-painting-can-remain-on-t.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T20:56:00","slug":"jesus-painting-can-remain-on-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/jesus-painting-can-remain-on-t.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus painting can remain on the wall of a courthouse in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/jesus-painting-in-courthouse-lobby.html\">Art lovers won<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20070910\/29247_Jesus_Court_Painting_Survives_ACLU_Attack.htm\">ACLU lost<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A disputed portrait of Jesus Christ will remain at the Slidell city courthouse in Louisiana after a federal judge refused to grant a demand by the American Civil Liberties Union to have the painting removed.<br \/>\n&#8220;The court today recognized that the First Amendment allows public officials, and not the ACLU, to determine what is appropriate for acknowledging our nation&#8217;s legal and cultural heritage,&#8221; said Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, in a statement Friday.<br \/>\n&#8220;The ACLU&#8217;s sole and stated objective in this case was to have the Jesus painting removed. But the Constitution does not prohibit public buildings from memorializing great figures from our history.&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nIn response, the city of Slidell mounted additional portraits of 15 of history&#8217;s preeminent lawgivers alongside the Jesus painting. The framed portraits added on Aug. 31 included those of Confucius, Hammurabi, Moses, Charlemagne, and Sir William Blackstone. Alongside the 16 framed portraits are a reproduction of the U.S. Constitution and a mounted explanation of the various figures in the paintings.<br \/>\nHowever the added prints did not appease the ACLU, which refused to drop the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art lovers won and the ACLU lost! 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