Oklahoma proposal would protect Confederate monuments
Posted April 6, 2016 - 1:38pm
By Rick Green
The Oklahoman
OKLAHOMA CITY — A bill to protect military monuments on public property has been altered in a way to preserve memorials to the Confederacy, a state senator says.
Senate Bill 970 was approved by the Senate last year and remains alive this legislative session ...
In its original version, the bill prohibited state and local government from renaming or removing structures or monuments that honor military figures or events for a list of military conflicts beginning with the first World War I and ending with the second Persian Gulf War.
When the bill got to a House committee on March 30, it was replaced with a version that did not specify which wars were covered ...
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