You can’t miss the oversized Ten Commandments posted at the door of the Chester County courthouse. Nearly every visitor walks past the bronze panel admonishing all to keep the Sabbath holy and “have no other gods before me.”
Regular court visitors said for years they never considered the 82-year-old plaque anything other than a historical curiosity – but they are bristling now at a federal judge’s ruling that hanging the Ten Commandments on a county building breeches the constitutional separation of church and state.
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