Written by Don Byrd
A Ten Commandments monument displayed on the Oklahoma State Capitol Grounds is the subject of a new lawsuit filed in state court by the ACLU. The monument was put in place last year with private funding, following legislation in 2009.
The Tulsa World has more:
The monument, owned by the state and placed upon public property, “conveys an explicit religious message that supports and endorses the faiths and creeds of some churches and sects,” the suit said.
The monument’s message urges those viewing it to worship or believe in no other forms of divinity but the one endorsed, the suit said.
The monument was placed in a setting with no other monuments or memorials, which “lends to the monument’s effect of conveying state endorsement and support of its explicitly religious message,” the suit says.
Stay tuned.
