Before I'm ripped to shreds by the Amen Corner, can you help me to understand why it's important to anyone to have God related symbols in a courthouse?

To me it smacks of materialism (as opposed to spirituality) which is what I like to think we do better than the 7th Century Cockroaches who have more respect for a reproduction of the Koran than human life.

Either way, I swoon yet again at reading a bit of another of Scalia's dissents:

Justice Antonin Scalia released a stinging dissent in the courthouse case, declaring, "What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle."