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Atheist group forces removal of Ten Commandments from districts school rooms

The Freedom From Religion Foundation caused the furor after they found out about displays in several school buildings.

The FFRF is an atheist and church-state separatist group with a history of similar actions.

The group says someone told them about the display at the Kentucky schools and they began proceedings to have the scriptures removed.

The displays were taken down this week after hanging inside the schools with no complaints or other issues for several years.

The Kentucky Board of Education released the following statement about the actions.

“The display of religious materials, such as a painting of a religious figure or a copy of the Ten Commandments, in a public school violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on the establishment or endorsement of religion by a public agency. A school or district that displays copies of the Ten Commandments without the inclusion of other historical documents and not as part of a historical/comparative display is in violation of the U.S. Constitution. See the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding on this issue in Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39, 101 S.Ct. 192 (1980). The Kentucky Department of Education’s focus in Breathitt County is on student achievement and college and career readiness and using its resources to support those efforts.”

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