Oklahoma Satanists Seek Statue at Statehouse

[Nobody]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/08/satanists-oklahoma-statehouse/3908849/

[Brother_Bliss]

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[Nobody]

Interesting to see if ACLU is opposed to the Satanic monument as it is to the Ten comandments.

[Brother_Bliss]

Interesting to see if ACLU is opposed to the Satanic monument as it is to the Ten comandments.

 

Seems to be

 

The Republican-controlled Legislature in this state known as the buckle of the Bible Belt authorized the privately funded Ten Commandments monument in 2009, and it was placed on the Capitol grounds last year despite criticism from legal experts who questioned its constitutionality. The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking its removal.

 

But the New York-based Satanic Temple saw an opportunity. It notified the state's Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument and plans to submit one of several possible designs this month, said Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the temple....

 

"We would prefer to see Oklahoma's government officials work to faithfully serve our communities and improve the lives of Oklahomans instead of erecting granite monuments to show us all how righteous they are," Henderson said. "But if the Ten Commandments, with its overtly Christian message, is allowed to stay at the Capitol, the Satanic Temple's proposed monument cannot be rejected because of its different religious viewpoint."

 

 

The ACLU is an interesting organization. They sue to have monuments removed, and then at the same time have spoken in favor of our religious rights as Jehovah's Witnesses.