Columbus (OH) Dispatch - Removal of Ten Commandments Poster from Ohio Courtroom Reaches U.S. Supreme Court

By Jessica Wehrman, The Columbus Dispatch

A conservative organization has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the case of a Richland County judge ordered to remove a poster of the Ten Commandments from his courtroom.

The American Center for Law and Justice in Washington asked justices this week to overturn a February decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that declared use of the poster unconstitutional.

The poster, designed, framed and hung by Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese in 2006, was titled "Philosophies of Law in Conflict." It compared the "moral absolutes" of the Ten Commandments with the "moral relatives" of humanism, a philosophy that rejects religious beliefs and holds that humans control their actions. . . .

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