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

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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.

Ohio Common Pleas Court Judge James DeWeese had labeled the poster “Philosophies of Law in Conflict” and included personal commentary.

He declared his preference for the moral absolutism of the Ten Commandments [forbidding murder, theft, adultery, etc.] rather than what he called the moral relativism of humanists.
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Considering this judge’s previous history of using his courtroom walls to proselytize, it is not surprising that the Supreme Court let stand the Sixth Circuit’s assessment that the judge’s weaving his religious ideas into a secular presentation was a “sham.”