Written by Don Byrd
A lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in Giles County, Virginia public schools was declared moot by a federal judge after an interesting compromise brought about a settlement between the two parties.
The agreement stipulates what has already happened: that a framed copy of the Ten Commandments at Narrows High School be replaced with a page from a history textbook that mentions the commandments without quoting them verbatim.
Last week, the school board formally adopted the compromise, which it approved in late May as it became clear that it was facing an uphill legal battle.
So a discussion of the Ten Commandments and an image of stone tablets depicting them without stating them replaces the posting of the Decalogue, both parties walk away paying their own attorney fees, and everybody is happy. Who says compromise is dead?
