A U.S. judge ruled that a monument of the Ten Commandments must be removed within 30 days from the Alabama judicial building. The judge ruled Monday that the 5,300-pound monument in the state capital of Montgomery violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on government endorsement of religion.
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