Saturday, June 23, 2007

State Will Not Challenge Court Ruling On Religious Texts

The Winston-Salem Journal reports here that the state will not appeal Judge Ridgeway's ruling last month that individuals may take a court oath using a text “most sacred and obligatory upon their conscience.”

The ruling came in a lawsuit that challenged a state law that favored the Bible as the only allowable text. I previously blogged about this story here and here.

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