10 Commandments update:

About.com has some good links and background information (in their athiesm section!). Also, there is a story about the sculptor of Roy's Rock. Excerpt: (emphasis added)

The man whose handiwork is now the center of national attention went unrecognized among the crowd of protesters outside the Alabama Supreme Court on Thursday, but Richard Hahnemann was happy in his anonymity.

Hahnemann, a Web designer for Adtran Inc., said he had been sculpting only about five years when a friend of Moore's contacted him around Thanksgiving of 2000, soon after Moore was elected chief justice.

With Moore's approval, Hahnemann ordered an 8,000-pound chunk of granite from the Rock of Ages Corp. of Barre, Vt., which claims to operate the world's largest granite quarry.

Hahnemann's first initial and last name are engraved on the base of the monument, below similar engravings for Moore and his lawyer, Steve Melchoir. The monument also bears a copyright stamp.

"The purpose of (the copyright) is to protect our commercial integrity," Hahnemann said.

posted by Quiddity at 8/26/2003 11:30:00 AM