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Fields of the Wood is a Christian religious park of more than 200 acres (81 ha) in Cherokee County, North Carolina, owned by the Church of God of Prophecy—a Holiness Pentecostal denomination. It is best known for the largest representation of the Ten Commandments in the world, measuring 300 feet (91 m) wide across a mountainside. [1]
The mayor said it would be privately funded by council members and framed the proposal as a legal and historical tribute, versus a religious one. Ten Commandments monument proposed for city hall ...
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
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 ...
Ten Commandments Memorial, Phoenix, Arizona, located in Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza; Ten Commandments Monument, Pleasant Grove, Utah, implicated in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum; Ten Commandments Monument, removed from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building, per Glassroth v. Moore; Ten Commandments Monument, removed from the grounds of ...
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Challenger Lynne Greene defeats four-term incumbent Johnny Dawkins in 2023 Fayetteville NC City Council election.
Cecil Bothwell (born 16 October 1950) is an American politician, writer, artist, musician and builder. Bothwell was elected to the Asheville, North Carolina city council in 2009 and reelected in 2013, but lost in the 2017 primary, coming in 7th out of 12 candidates.