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A federal appeals court says stone monuments displaying the Ten
Commandments cannot be placed on the grounds of public schools. The
Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a dispute involving
a southern Ohio school district that serves Adams County.

The appeals court rejected arguments by the school district and
clergymen that the Ten Commandments should be allowed on school grounds.
The commandments had been displayed with the Declaration of
Independence, Magna Carta and the preamble to the Constitution. The
Adams County school board and the ministers said all those documents
represent the foundations of today's law and, as such, have a place in
secular society.

But the appeals court said the board and the ministers had failed to
show that the display had anything other than a religious purpose. The
court noted that the monuments were donated by Christian ministers.

An Adams County minister, the Reverend Ken Johnson of Seaman, says he
expects to appeal Monday's ruling.

The appeals court upheld a lower court's order which required the Ten
Commandments to be removed last summer from the grounds of the four
Adams County public high schools.

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Merlyn LeRoy