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Hooray for the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Unlike all too many liberal courts throughout the country, which have held that atheist hate speech against Christians is perfectly okay, the Sixth ruled last week that such anti-religious malice is not protected by the First Amendment. The case dates back to 2010, when the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist hate group based in Madison, Wisconsin, wrote a series of letters to Jim Fouts, Mayor of Warren, Michigan, demanding that the city remove a nativity scene from a holiday display it has put up for years. Mayor Fouts told the...

Appeals Court Says Ten Commandments Not Allowed On School Grounds A federal court ruled Monday that putting the commandments on government property is unconstitutional. This means that displays of the Ten Commandments will stay out of Adams County Schools. This decision upholds a lower court's ruling that ordered the removal of the monuments in front of four Adams County Schools. Supporters of the commandments monuments argued that they are historical documents just like the Declaration of Independence. The Sixth Circuit Court rejected that said that the the commandments are religious symbols. But it would be tough to convince a...