Posted on 07/27/2015 3:42:49 PM PDT by GoneSalt
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a last ditch attempt by the state to keep a Ten Commandments monument next to the Oklahoma Capitol.
The court ordered it removed, and on Monday denied a request from the state to reconsider that order.
The monument must be removed because it violates a section of the Oklahoma Constitution prohibiting state property from being used to further religions, the court said.
"Obviously we're pleased with the decision," said Brady Henderson, legal director for ACLU Oklahoma. "The whole case is controversial, but something that is undeniable is that the court is getting this right. The court is following the law."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
However, SCOTUS would gladly take a Petition
for Certiorari to protect a statue of Satan
having intercourse with a baby and a goat
on an American flag.
A Nation that turns from God deserves the punishment that is surely coming!
Freegards
LEX
Then leave it.
The ACLU representing Muslims, atheists, queers and commies everywhere. Built on hate for decency in America they do the bidding of the hate-mongers on the left.
Figures.
Let the pinheads justices come down in their black robes and try to move it themselves.
(I invented the hundred years ... but you get my meaning)
Clerk in the courthouse ... "No" .... don't give a reason, just say No.
"The monument must be removed because it violates a section of the Oklahoma Constitution prohibiting state property from being used to further religions, the court said."
This appears to be entirely a 10th Amendment issue. If legal majority voters in OK would allow religious displays on state property, but don’t lift a finger to work with their state lawmakers to appropriately amend OK’s constitution, then that is their problem.
The Ten Commandments appear in multiple locations on the U.S. Supreme Court building, they are our foundation.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/symbolsoflaw.pdf
Until recently moving to the Oklahoma Judicial Center (a renovated, re-purposed building) the Oklahoma Supreme Court was housed in the Oklahoma state capitol and, I believe, still has courtrooms in that building. Why shouldn’t the Ten Commandments be on the Capitol grounds?
Oklahoma state property is not being used to further religions, rather is is being used to acknowledge the foundation of our society and jurisprudence. Does the Oklahoma court reject those foundations? If so, what foundations have they substituted?
That sounds like an open and shut case. I thought everyone around here was in favor of following the constitution.
If that monument comes down in Oklahoma, there is no hope for America.
DEFY THEM!!! The state justice department reports to the administrative branch... don’t enforce. If you have the guts don’t enforce.
Decide which side you will stand with. The court and the devil or God. Pick one.
I would not want to be one of these judges when they come before God and have to explain this to Him.
I live in north central OK.
OK has been having a lot of earthquakes recently, i know... but we rarely feel them here AT ALL where I live.
Today we felt a very significant one that lasted almost half a minute. We have only felt 2-3 in the last few years. This one today was the second strongest we ever felt.
Connection? who knows... just sayin.
Sell the land that the monument currently sits on to a private group. Problem solved.
Read Ray76’s post #11
This isn’t the “furthering” of religion - the monument is simply an acknowledgment of the principles that are inextricably woven into the fabric of our nation. To remove them is to rend our nation.
The monument demands exactly *zero* compulsion to even agree with the 10 Commandments, much less conform to them.
“We were just following orders”
;’(
According to that link, Confucius and Muhammad also appear on the U.S. Supreme Court building, along with Moses. Is sounds like the Ten Commandments are only depicted as the numerals I to X.
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