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92-year-old Ten Commandments plaque removed from school after atheist group complains

By Zach Halaschak
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92-year-old Ten Commandments plaque removed from school after atheist group complains

A plaque of the Ten Commandments has been removed after hanging in an Ohio middle school for nearly a century.

Officials at Joseph Welty Middle School in New Philadelphia, Ohio, reportedly took the tablet down after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained that the biblical edicts might be making students uncomfortable.

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