First: a private citizen donated the building to Cambridge with the stipulation that the thing be displayed.
Second: there is a display by it, explaining its history, the guy who donated it, and that the library doesn't, in general, endorse the Ten Commandments as superior to any other moral or ethical system, but that it is there because a) that's the rules, and b) it's historically interesting.
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Date: 2006-09-09 02:44 am (UTC)First: a private citizen donated the building to Cambridge with the stipulation that the thing be displayed.
Second: there is a display by it, explaining its history, the guy who donated it, and that the library doesn't, in general, endorse the Ten Commandments as superior to any other moral or ethical system, but that it is there because a) that's the rules, and b) it's historically interesting.