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Unanimous ruling ... this monument violates the US Constitution:

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QuoteFederal Court Says Religious Monument At Oklahoma Courthouse Is Unconstitutional (6/9/2009)
Ten Commandments Monument An Endorsement Of Religion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DENVER â€" A unanimous federal appeals court yesterday ruled that county commissioners in Haskell County, Oklahoma unconstitutionally sought to promote their personal religious beliefs by erecting a Ten Commandments monument on the front lawn of the county's courthouse. The decision by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals comes in a challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Oklahoma on behalf of a local resident.

more ... http://www.aclu.org/religion/public/398 ... 90609.html (http://www.aclu.org/religion/public/39800prs20090609.html)

I read and article about this earlier by Americans United for Separation of Church and state.  Apparently the official in charge of this monument thought that only one judge made the ruling and that he'd have to answer to God.  Needless to say, he's going to try to appeal the ruling.  If I find the article again, I'll post it.

Quote from: "VietnamVet-BRIGHT"Unanimous ruling ... this monument violates the US Constitution:

When are they going to learn and stop spending my tax money on these expensive and pointless lawsuits?

Separation of church and state is too well established. It's a nation with Christians, not a Christian theocracy. Grr.  

Quote from: "Whitney"I read and article about this earlier by Americans United for Separation of Church and state.  Apparently the official in charge of this monument thought that only one judge made the ruling and that he'd have to answer to God.  Needless to say, he's going to try to appeal the ruling.  If I find the article again, I'll post it.

These folks are clearly a bunch of fundamentalist Christian theocrats; vis, on the opposite side of that monument are inscribed the words of the "Mayflower Compact" ... they could have placed the US Constitution there but, nooooooo, they opted for theocratic language which predates the US Constitution by more than 150 years:

Quote from: "opposite side of 10C monument"THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
NOVEMBER 11, 1620

In the name of God, Amen.

We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.
 
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620

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