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(Bloomberg) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a monument of the 10 Commandments must be removed from the state capitol grounds as it violates the separation of church and state.
The high court reversed a September ruling in favor of the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission, which argued the privately funded monument wasn’t an impermissible endorsement of religion, as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A citizens group, led by a Baptist minister and retired school teacher and assisted by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued in 2013 to have the marker removed on claims it co-opted “their religious traditions, resulting in a cheapening and degradation of their shared faith.”
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