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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- An Ohio judge is back in court for the second time defending a courtroom poster featuring the Ten Commandments.
James DeWeese, a judge on the Richland County Court of Common Pleas, put up a poster that he had designed in 2006, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. His previous poster, which went up in his courtroom in 2000, was declared unconstitutional and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the ruling in 2005.
A federal judge found in October the new poster violates the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. DeWeese is appealing.
The poster bears the title "Philosophies of Law in Conflict" and contrasts the "moral absolutes" of the Ten Commandments with the "moral relatives" of "humanist principles." The judge says in written commentary on the poster the law must be based on absolutes.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State and non-Christian religious groups filed a friend of the court brief with the appeals court Tuesday. They said DeWeese is trying to "dress a religious display in secular clothing."
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