Oklahoma can't shove religion down its residents' throats!

The monument of the Ten Commandments erected in front of Oklahoma's state capitol building in 2012 has been ordered removed by Capitol Preservation Commission.  The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in June it violated the Oklahoma Constitution. 

It's about time!  The monument has been a source of controversy for the past several years and should never have been put up in the first place.  But it's no surprise it was erected.  Oklahoma, the buckle of the Bible Belt, is as red a state as they come.  They vote Republican even though most registered voters are Democrats.  They've been against Obama since Day One, and still claim they're not being racist.  Come on.  I was born and raised there.  Zebras can't change their stripes.  They do not approve of gay marriages, despite the fact that very few of them would get one.

Of course, people are up in arms about it.  According to Associated Press, former state representative Mike Reynolds wanted to address the commission but the chairwoman Linda Edmondson said public comment was not part of the meeting.  She's right. 

Although I don't always agree with the ACLU, I like what this guy said.  Brady Henderson was quoted as saying, "Like (the judge) said, whatever somebody thinks about the decision itself in the Ten Commandments case, we live in a country where the rule of law is supreme. And that means once the Supreme Court has spoken, the district court here has a very clear mandate as to exactly what it has to do.”

Amazingly short-sighted Attorney General Scott Pruitt said: "The Oklahoma Supreme Court's stunningly broad interpretation of Article II, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution created a hostility toward religion that violates the balance struck by the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of freedom of religion."

Removing the monument is NOT hostility toward religion.  It's a separation of church and state!  Not everyone in Oklahoma is either Christian or Jewish.    If there is to be a monument of religious "do's and don't's" then it needs to include codes of ethics from all religions.  Right now, it only speaks to Christians and Jews to behave and the Christians certainly are NOT behaving.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oklahoma-panel-orders-removal-ten-commandments-monument-34130439

http://newsok.com/panel-orders-ten-commandments-monument-removed-from-ok-capitol-grounds/article/5450147

http://newsok.com/article/5446411