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8 times that a 10 Commandments monument had its day in court

Last week, Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to display a 10 Commandments monument on statehouse grounds. But Oklahoma Gov. over a 3,000 pound Ten Commandments monument on the City Hall's front lawn. They viewed this as a governmental endorsement of religion and demanded the removal of the monument. The city argued that private parties funded and erected the monument after the city council passed a resolution allowing for residents to build historical monuments. The plaintiff, argued that city leaders,replica van cleef and arpels alhambra earrings, instead of residents, led the efforts in building the monument. They claimed that the monument was proposed by Kevin Mauzy,replica van earrings, who was on the city council when the proposal was made. Additionally, the plaintiff asserted that the majority of the funding came from the city. Green sued on the basis that the monument violated the First Amendment's separation of church and state. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, Green won the case. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the monument must be removed but it was permitted to stay while the Haskell County Commissioners appealed the case. However, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal and in March 2010,van cleef clover earrings replica, it was decided that the monument had to go. The monument was moved a few feet away from the courthouse to the lawn of the American Legion.

Related: GOPer: I won remove 10 Commandments statueSummum Church of Pleasant Grove, Utah requested to build their own privately funded statue on the grounds of a public park where a statue of the Ten Commandments was displayed. Summum Church asserted that if the Ten Commandments could be displayed, then they could erect a statue for their church. The petitioners to Summum's request was the American Center for Law and Justice, who argued that there is a difference between government speech and private speech. They said that while the government was allowed to display the Ten Commandments, it does not need to endorse all private speech. DeMille donated the monument to the government, which decided to erect the monument on the state capitol grounds. Thomas Van Orden a homeless man with a suspended law license challenged the constitutionality of displaying this monument on Capitol grounds in 2005. It violated, he argued, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In the subsequent case Van Orden v. Supreme Court ruled in a 5 4 vote that a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol was constitutional. In the ensuing case McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, the ACLU claimed that the religious displays were in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled in November 2003 that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's the placement of a 2.6 ton granite Ten Commandment monument in the state building violated the Constitution's principle of separation of church and state. Moore,clover earrings van cleef replica, however, refused to follow through and did not remove the monument. US Judge Robert Echols agreed and ordered for the removal of the Ten Commandments in 2004. However, Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold posted the Ten Commandments in his department's lobby, next to a copy of the Bill of rights and the Declaration of Independance. These parents argued that a Kentucky statute that required the posting of a copy of the Ten Commandments in each public school classroom violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In the ensuing case Stone v. Graham, the court ruled 5 2 in the parents' favor: the Commandments, they decided, "had no secular legislative purpose" and were "plainly religious in nature."

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