ten commandments

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

2:06pm June 30, 2024

by The Associated Press

It's unclear whether the new law that requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday. The group wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds because a monument of the Ten Commandments was placed there in 2017.

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Satanic Temple Protests Ten Commandments Monument With Goat-Headed Statue

7:41pm August 17, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

"It will be a very cold day in hell before an offensive statue will be forced upon us to be permanently erected on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol," Republican State Sen. Jason Rapert said.

Workers used a crane to install a Ten Commandments monument Thursday outside the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock.

Arkansas Installs A New Ten Commandments Monument At Its Capitol

1:40pm April 26, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The first version of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol lasted less than 24 hours before it was destroyed by a car last June.

Staff at the Secretary of State's Office inspect the damage to the new Ten Commandments monument outside the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday morning. Police say a car crashed into it less than 24 hours after it was installed.

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Arkansas' Ten Commandments Monument Lasted Less Than 24 Hours

1:53pm June 28, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Police say a man drove a 2016 Dodge Dart into the 6,000-pound granite slab less than a day after it was installed on the grounds of the state Capitol. The man reportedly took video as he accelerated.

A six-foot-tall privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the Arkansas Capitol grounds in Little Rock today.

Ten Commandments Installed At Arkansas State Capitol; ACLU Plans Lawsuit

7:30pm June 27, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The monument's key backer, state Sen. Jason Rapert, says it honors the "historical moral foundation of law." But the ACLU says it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The Ten Commandments monument that used be at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma Removes Ten Commandments Monument From The State Capitol

4:53pm October 06, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The state's highest court had ordered its removal this summer. But the argument over the monument's propriety had been simmering for years.