A Ten Commandments display erected in 2012 on the grounds of the state capitol building of Oklahoma City, Okla.
I assume this would also end the attempt by the Church of Satan to build their own monument on the capitol grounds as well?
Can this small piece of property be sold, deeded, or otherwise transferred to a non-gov’t entity?
These articles about this issue have failed to give the historical background of the OK constitutional provision used by their Supreme Court to order the removal of the Ten Commandments. The OK court used what is called a Blaine Amendment. During the Post-Civil War era the dominant WASPs became concerned about public money going to Catholic Schools. Let us say the Protestant Establishment wanted children to go to public schools which at that time taught a lowest common denominator Protestantism, for example, reading from the King James version of the Bible. (The OK monument is an modern day example of this as it is the Protestant version.) So President Grant and Republican Congressman James Blaine proposed a US Constitutional Amendment to ban the use of tax money and land for sectarian purposes including schools. The Federal Amendment failed to get out of Congress but all but 11 states passed a Blaine Amendment in their constitutions. Lawsuits have successful stopped school vouchers from going to sectarian schools based on Blaine Amendments. It seems the OK Supreme Court made the correct decision since the amendment clearly states, “No public...property shall ever be...used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion..” The monument on public property and the use of the Protestant 10 Commandments clearly violated the language of the amendment. I do have a macabre joy in seeing this blowback from what was passed as a blatantly anti-Catholic law. The politicians of OK had plenty of time to revoke this amendment. Traditionalists, and I consider myself one, better get ready for the weapons used in the past to come back to bit us in the arse.
The Evil Ones want Traditional Americans to be ashamed and hiding at all times, and use our own rules against us to do it. I long for the day when they are put in their place.
“Meanwhile, state Republican legislators including Rep. Kevin Calvey have called for the impeachment of the justices who ruled against the Decalogue.”
Hopefully, he will follow through on this immediately. A clear message needs to be sent. I wished the Repubs in the U.S. House would do the same to the 5 that voted for homosexual marriage.
Whatever, in Oklahoma the Supreme Court Justices are subject to sustainment votes by the people. Hopefully, if the legislature doesn’t act, then the people will publicize the names of these justices and work to have them voted out of office as each comes up for sustainment votes. BTW - This is what Ted Cruz wants to amend the COTUS to subject SCOTUS justices to sustainment votes as well.
It is merely on display. It is not an edict by anybody in Oklahoma to either read or follow the commandments.