Another headline from the Huffington Post caught my eye today. It said "Someone Smashed the Disputed Oklahoma Ten Commandments Monument to Pieces". At first I read the headline and just kept scrolling. Then, the more I thought about it the more irked I got. So to give you a little background story on what actually happened...
In Oklahoma City, last night, a person drove their car up a ramp near the Oklahoma City Capitol steps and purposely smashed into their granite statue of the Ten Commandments as an "apparent act of vandalism". The statue was over six feet tall, so it most likely totaled the vehicle. The driver abandoned the car and fled the scene.
The thing that bothered me when I read this article was that the American Civil Liberties Union has been suing to have the statue removed because it "violates the state constitution and could be seen as a state endorsement of religion". It doesn't matter what your perspective is on religion, the Declaration of Independence blatantly states "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...". This country was founded by people who believe in God. I don't understand why now all of a sudden people are trying to undo the religious foundations of our government. In the pledge of allegiance we say "one nation under God". Maybe I'm bias (being a Christian) but just because you think that a statue of the Ten Commandments standing in front of your city's capitol building violates the Constitution doesn't give you the right to smash into it with
a car.
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