Oklahoma Passes Controversial Ten Commandments Law

Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze authored House Bill 1330. His bill was signed into law by the Governor Brad Henry on Monday. The bill allows for a monument of the Ten Commandments to be placed on the State Capitol Grounds.

Ritze is paying $10,000 for the monument, and legal challenges will be defended by a private institution, the Legal Liberty Institute, to save the taxpayers money. Ritze says that the Ten Commandments inscribed on the monument will come from the King James version of the Bible. According to local television station KSBI TV (see video clip below), Ritze claims that that he wrote the bill and decided to fund it "to honor the foundation and origin of the state's law system."

"I just thought it was a great idea to emphasize and remphasize where many of our laws come from," Ritze said. "From the ten commandments, it's been in place for 3500 years as we know, we get our laws from English law. English law comes from Roman law. Roman law comes subsequently from Mosiac law."

The ACLU has not stated its next course of action, but did note that the monument is an affront to the Constitution.

The ACLU is already battling a Ten Commandments case in Oklahoma, where a similar monument was placed on the grounds of the courthouse in Stigler. A US district court allowed that monument, but the ACLU has appealed that decision.

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