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October 03, 2011

CS Monitor: Ban on judge's Ten Commandments poster stands as Supreme Court declines case

by Warren Richey
The Christian Science Monitor

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case examining whether an Ohio judge violated the separation of church and state when he displayed a poster in his courtroom that contrasted the Ten Commandments with humanist precepts.

By declining the case, the court let stand rulings that found that the judge had indeed violated the church-state principle.

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