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MONTGOMERY, Ala.- A Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of Alabama's judicial building violates the constitution's ban on government promotion of religion, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson gave Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had had the 5,300-pound granite monument installed in the state building, 30 days to remove it. Moore testified during the trial that the commandments are the moral foundation of American law. He said the monument acknowledges God, but does not force anyone to follow his conservative Christian religious beliefs. A lawsuit seeking removal of the monument argued that it promoted the...

Opponents of Alabama's top judge have revealed — unintentionally — their true feelings about the man determined to honor the Ten Commandments in a government building. A lawyer's letter sent to the wrong person reveals bitter religious intolerance by those opposing Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. The chief justice of the state's highest court is being sued for placing a Ten Commandments monument in the Supreme Court building. The letter was written by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which opposes the Ten Commandments display. But a copy was mailed to Judge Roy Moore's attorney — apparently...

The Raleigh News & Observer is reporting that the North Carolina Museum of History, in cooperation with the Southern Poverty Law Center, is planning to replace its exhibit entitled "North Carolina and the Civil War" with a new exhibit focusing on "civil rights." From the article: http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1400026p-1434332c.html "A vision began to emerge of multimedia displays large enough to fill the 3,600 square feet of space now devoted to a Civil War exhibit. Organizers now plan to sponsor a teachers' institute on civil rights this summer and another daylong event Oct. 12 featuring a speaker from the Southern Poverty Law Center...