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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Workers quietly remove Ten Commandments from Oklahoma Capitol

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that has sparked controversy since its installation on the Oklahoma Capitol grounds was being removed late Monday 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. The works comes after the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision in June 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.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry.

Anonymous said...

Let's start taxing churches to pay for all these losing causes they keep sticking the states with. It is the taxpayers that get screwed while the churches get off without paying a dime.

Anonymous said...

This is wrong in so many ways, it has been a downhill slide since they took prayer out of schools. They will chip away till there won't be any USA it will be renamed. Will we ever have a Congress, Senate and President who puts an end to this the resurgence in taking down our country is because a shooter went into a church and shot everyone, and because his beliefs were so screwed up it has changed everything in less than a year.

Anonymous said...

@ 2:22

No one, at any time, has removed prayer from school. There is no state imposed mandatory prayer.... but anyone can still pray whenever they want to. People just can't be forced to. So, I'm not sure what you mean by prayer was taken out of school.

Anonymous said...

What cowards doing their deeds under the darkness of night.