Oklahoma county must pay up in Ten Commandments case

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/28/oklahoma.ten.commandments/?hpt=Sbin

(CNN) -- The Haskell County, Oklahoma, Commission has 10 years to pay attorneys' fees of $199,000 after it was forced to remove an 8-foot-tall Ten Commandments monument.

The county has been in litigation with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma since 2006, after it allowed a resident to pay for and erect the granite monument on the courthouse lawn in Stigler.

After a series of court decisions up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case, the ACLU prevailed. The monument was removed in March, and the attorneys' fees were settled last week, ACLU attorney Micheal Salem said.

Salem said the commandments were moved to private property owned by the American Legion about 150 feet from the courthouse

[saltpoint]

1. Good.

I see no call to put the goddam Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn.

Jesus.

I bet $199,000 would have bought a shitload of library books.

[hatrack]

2. Maybe "a resident" can pay the legal bills, too.

Dumbasses.

[depakid]

5. Residents, you mean- as this will come out of local coffers

[NeedleCast]

3. How Long Until These Bible Belt States Learn?

They lose this battle every time they bring it back up. Good, glad to see they got their fictional rule book removed (again) and are going to have to pay for it. However, I'm assuming it's tax-payer money that'll end up having to cover the attorney's fees.

[Warpy]

6. They always fail to read those first 3 commandments

and if they read them, they don't understand why it's a really bad idea to tell non Judeo-Christian-Islamic people that their religions are garbage on their way into a building seeking justice.

[MineralMan]

8. And maybe the taxpayers will let the morons they elected know

that they don't like paying for their stupidity. Elections are good for that, as are recalls.

[RKP5637]

4. Excellent!!! n/t

[tanyev]

7. Just once, I'd like to see a truly literalist fundie put up a 10 Commandments

monument carved in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

[asjr]

9. Forcing one's religion on another can be

excruciatingly expensive.

[daggahead]

10. I wonder what the Freepers are saying about this .. n/t

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[archiemo]

11. Great news!!