Christ First Forum

http://www2.tbo.com/news/faith/2011/jul ... ar-244679/

CROSS CITY --
A federal judge says Dixie County officials must remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the front of their courthouse.

Senior District Judge Maurice Paul gave the North Florida county until mid-August to remove the monument in Cross City.

The decision resulted from a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida in 2007. The group argued that an official government display of a religious monument violates a clause in the First Amendment that prohibits government from promoting religious messages.

The county argued that it didn't own the monument that was controlled by a private citizen.

Cross City is in the Big Bend region of the state, about an hour west of Gainesville.