Ten Commandments Monument Garners Attention

[yngliberal]

This is happening in the county just north of where I live but I thought I'd post it. It's not suprising no one is against it yet, due to Oklahoma being conservative.


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Ten Commandments Monument Garners Attention

ATOKA, Okla. (AP) - A monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments has been put in place outside the Atoka County Courthouse even as a lawsuit challenging a similar display in
Stigler is being heard.

Nancy Hyatt with the Ten Commandments Monument Group says she's aware of potential lawsuits challenging the display in Atoka but is confident the monument is constitutional.

And Hyatt says the monument is a historical - not religious - display. It was erected in mid-March, and will be dedicated this summer. The monument weighs 5,000 pounds and is cut from granite. It was paid for with private donations, although the city has agreed to pay the electric bill for a spotlight.

The Ten Commandments monument on the Haskell County Courthouse lawn at Stigler, Oklahoma is being challenged by a disabled veteran and the American Civil Liberties Union. The lawsuit is being heard in federal court in Muskogee.

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[lvx35]

1. Historical, eh?

Than they shouldn't mind a monument near by that depicts Arjuna recieving the law from Krishna, or Confucious teaching proper behaviour. Yet somehow I have a feeling they would not be so down with these "historical" displays from other faiths.

[highplainsdem]

2. Assuming they're Republicans, they should at least get their commandments

right:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1058278

Although those would probably take a larger monument, especially with the 10th commandment...


Seriously, their claim that these monuments are "historical" is a complete sham. As lvx35 pointed out, those people wouldn't tolerate "historical" displays from other faiths.

[zbdent]

3. This "argument" about how the Ten Commandments being posted

in front of the Courthouse(s) would put off a criminal from doing a crime is laughable to me . . .

The very same people who would be pushing that argument probably scoff at the posting of the signs saying "carrying a firearm or weapon into this building is illegal" something-or-other.

How about this . . . instead of "grandstanding" and wasting thousands of dollars on a "monument" that would only be seen by "criminals" after they've been caught (thus "ensuring the politician's place in Heaven"), why don't these idiots go a little less flashy and just put up stickers with the Ten Commandments ON PLACES OF BUSINESS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE ROBBED?????? If the "display" of the Ten Commandments is supposed to be so "effective" in reducing crime (instead of getting the national spotlight for the wannabe . . .)

[Lars39]

4. Historical...all the way back to Charleton Heston pimping Moses,

ie the movie 'The Ten Commandments'.