Posted on 10/08/2015 9:46:46 PM PDT by jonatron
OKLAHOMA CITY — A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that has sparked controversy since its installation on the Oklahoma Capitol grounds was being removed and will be transported to a private conservative think tank for storage.
A contractor the state hired began removing the monument shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday. The work comes after the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s June decision that the display violates a state constitutional prohibition on the use of public property to support “any sect, church, denomination or system of religion.”
The state is paying the contractor about $4,700 to remove the monument and take it to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs’ offices a few blocks away, Office of Management and Enterprise Services spokesman John Estus said.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol increased security around the monument earlier Monday, and barriers were erected to keep visitors from getting close to it. Estus said the decision to remove the monument under the cover of darkness was made to avoid disturbing workers at the Capitol and to keep protesters from demonstrating while heavy equipment was being used to detach the two-ton monument from its base.
Its placement at the Capitol prompted requests from several groups to have their own monuments installed, including a satanic church in New York that wanted to erect a 7-foot-tall statue that depicts Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, wings and a long beard. A Hindu leader in Nevada, an animal rights group and the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster also made requests...
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ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'
Oklahoma Supreme Court’s June decision that the display violates a state constitutional prohibition
Simple solution..change the State Constitution.
This from the state in which not one single county was carried by POS Obama.
What in the Wide Wide world of Sports is a goin on down in OK???
I am telling you all now there is a spiritual side to Vlad and he takes no prisoners, to me he is doing more for God shielding Israel more than our entire congress at the moment!
I saw him giving an interview in Russian to the media and he referred to Obama as a Puts...
Interesting as this is Yiddish, not Hebrew and if you understand that language its purpose is not communication without a purpose, I love it and find it fascinating and hysterically funny when is explained hat is really going on.
Yiddish is not something I would think a Russian Leader would be using but he did...
Is thee some secret Jewish family in his past, I would not be surprised and boy would that throw anew wrinkle into things...
Vlad with a soft spot for Jews and knowledge of what happens at the end of times, want to be on the right side of things when your name is called
And EIGHT of those ten laws are found in the common law books of all the states.
One - I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
Two - You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain
Three - Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day
Four - Honor your father and your mother
Five - You shall not kill
Six - You shall not commit adultery
Seven - You shall not steal
Eight - You shall not bear false witness
Nine - You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
Ten - You shall not covet your neighbor's goods
I have to agree. If there was one state that i didn’t think something like that would ever happen, it would be Oklahoma
Used to live outside a small town about as far East before Arkansas
Anyone with even too dark a tan stood out, and when the Cuban refugees broke out of the prison and headed that way it was on.
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