Ten Commandments Installed At Arkansas State Capitol; ACLU Plans Lawsuit
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.
Little Rock, Ark., is the latest front in the ongoing battle over Ten Commandments monuments on government property.
A six-foot-tall granite monument of the Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol on Tuesday, 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. "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."
