NPR - A six-foot-tall granite monument of the Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol, flanked by the state senator who raised the money to pay for it and sponsored the legislation that required it.
"We have a beautiful Capitol grounds but we did not have a monument that actually honored the historical moral foundation of law," Republican Sen. Jason Rapert told reporters. "And today we have now, through the support of people all over the country, mostly from Arkansas, been able to erect this monument at zero taxpayer expense."
The Ten Commandments Monument Display Act requires the Secretary of State to permit and arrange for the monument. The law cites the Supreme Court's 2005 Van Orden v. Perry decision, which allowed the Texas State Capitol to keep its Ten Commandments monument in place.
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With a little study, I've come to know these not so much as commandments but as promises...
Cheers, Tom
In less than a day the statue was destroyed by a man hollering "freedom!".
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-ten-commandments-monument-destroyed-vehicle/
This is as good as conservativism gets, erecting placards of the Ten Commandments at state capitol buildings. They won't put up the Code of Hammurabi or the Magna Carta alongside the Ten Commandments, because that requires actual historical knowledge.
- Strelnikov
Nothing on the tablet precluded the damage caused by the motorist. The motorist should argue in his defense that the commandments adopted by Arkansas are void for vagueness.
And should be struck down.
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