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The display of the Ten Commandments on public property has been controversial as a perceived violation of the Establishment Clause. The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of such monuments in 2005's Van Orden v. Perry. In 2009, Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze sponsored a bill to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the ...
A portable crane delivered it to the property of a private conservative think tank, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, about 10 blocks away. This may be only a temporary solution. The next day, Governor Fallin called for a constitutional amendment to allow the Ten Commandments to return to the capitol.
Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), was a court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Kentucky statute was unconstitutional and in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, because it lacked a nonreligious, legislative purpose.
The 10 Commandments have certainly received a lot of attention lately. New laws passed mandating the posting of the 10 Commandments in Louisiana classrooms—laws that may prove to be ...
Louisiana officials unveiled several posters of the Ten Commandments on Monday that could soon be placed in state classrooms featuring some familiar faces.
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of Georgia’s state capitol. A federal judge has blocked Louisiana’s law requiring similar posters in ...
The Monument was not created using public funds but was rather a donation by Republican State Representative Mike Ritze from Broken Arrow. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought suit against the Commission in the District Court of Oklahoma County, alleging the Monument violated Article 2, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution .
The statue has figured in public challenges against the display of the Ten Commandments at two state capitols. Depicting Baphomet , a goat-headed, angel-winged humanoid symbol of the occult , [ 4 ] the statue stands 8.5 feet (2.6 m) tall, weighing over 3,000 lb (1,400 kg), and includes a prominent pentagram as well as two smiling youths gazing ...