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An Alabama judge whose order that the 10 Commandments must be removed from a courtroom sparked large protests was named the winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Thursday. Circuit Court Judge Charles Price will be presented with the $25,000 award by members of President Kennedy’s family at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on May 29, the 80th anniversary of the president’s birth. Price ruled in November that fellow Circuit Court Judge Roy Moore must remove or modify a hand-carved tablet bearing the Ten Commandments from his Anniston, Ala., courtroom because it violated the First Amendment’s separation of church and state. Alabama has appealed the case to the state Supreme Court.
