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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year. The government has weighed in before in religion cases at the high court, including one earlier this year that challenged the words "under God" in the classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The government supported a California school district in that case. Now, it is backing two Kentucky counties that had framed copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses. The American Civil...

Ministers block removal of Commandments By Marie McCainThe Cincinnati EnquirerPEEBLES, Ohio - A group of ministers and local residents blocked the removal Monday of a three-foot statue bearing the Ten Commandments that stands in front of Peebles High School in Adams County. A year ago, a federal magistrate ordered the 800-pound monument removed because it violates the separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of Adams County resident Berry Baker, sued the school district, which allowed four of these monuments to be erected in front of four junior/senior high schools in Adams County. The...