applauded the decision -- you will remember wymore, who spent in 2001 spent taxpayer dollars to customld and install a 21 have done marble monument of the 10 commandments in the alabama judicial building which houses the state supreme court. the monument was ordered and installed without the knowledge of his co-justices. very quickly, the aclu along with other organizations filed suit against the state asking the monument be removed for violating the establishment clause of the first amendment as it endorsed a specific religion for the entire state judicial system. a federal district judge declared the monument must be removed, writing that it had been installed quote with the specific purpose and effect of establishing a permanent recognition of the sovereignty of god, the judeo-christian god overall citizens of this country regardless of each taxpaying citizen's individual, personal beliefs or lack thereof. to this he wrote, the establishment clause says no. he did refuse to remove the monument and dug in on his position saying again quote, without god, there can be no ethics. then,