‘Unconstitutional’ Commandments Booted from OK Capitol

With an October. 12 court-ordered deadline for removing the monument looming, the state hired Wilbert Memorials to move the sculpture late Monday from a landing on the north side of the Capitol building to its new home at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

Now in Oklahoma, a Baptist preacher has successfully sued to remove the Ten Commandments monument from that state’s capitol grounds.

Its removal comes after the Oklahoma Supreme Court determined the display violates a constitutional prohibition on the use of public property to support a “system of religion”.

In a recent interview, he expressed his satisfaction at the removal of the monument by the State government; “I’m not opposed to the Ten Commandments”. The place lawyer generic generally there says he aids the principal.

“There are a lot of important issues to deal with, but the legislature passed this bill (to erect monument) before I came into office”, she said, calling the monument a “benefit to Oklahomans”. “It would be good to get rid of a few of the [Oklahoma] Supreme Court justices, too”.

He said that part of the Oklahoma Constitution named via the courtroom (Article Two, Section Five) is marked by a handful for being “Blaine Amendment”, before which was meant to curb…

The original monument was smashed a year ago when someone drove a vehicle across the Capitol lawn and crashed into it. A new one was erected in January.

“We have not received anything on the monument to this point, and I do not know how much of anything has been raised”, Mosier wrote in an email to The Associated Press. It is being installed there with private funds.

OCPA also covered the $5,000 cost to remove the monument, according to the newspaper. Ritze vowed to spearhead a fundraising effort for the second monument.

Religious groups, including a Hindu organization and the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, had proposed their own statues for placement on the Capitol grounds.