MrRant 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2004 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A city council member who said he was inspired by Alabama's ousted chief justice placed a one-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments (search) in front of City Hall on Monday while it was closed for the King Day holiday. Vernon Robinson said he and four others acted on the holiday because the empty parking lot allowed room for a truck and crane, which they used to position the monument at dawn. The 4-foot-tall, blue-granite block is inscribed on one side with the Ten Commandments and on the other side with the Bill of Rights (search). "This display is intended to acknowledge the undeniable role that the Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights have played in developing the American legal tradition," said Robinson, a Republican who has been on the city council since 1998 and is running for a U.S. House seat. "These are the ideas on which society has been built and these works encapsulate the belief system on which the republic was founded." Mayor Allen Joines said the city would move quickly to remove the monument. "No one -- the mayor, a city council member or citizen -- can put anything on a piece of city property," Joines said. "City hall must be a place that everyone must be comfortable with. It belongs to all the people of Winston-Salem." Robinson said he had no authorization to place the monument on public property. The $2,000 cost of buying and moving the monument was entirely his own, Robinson said. Robinson said he was inspired to act by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore (search), who ordered a 2-ton Ten Commandments monument placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in 2001. A federal judge found the monument to be an unconstitutional promotion of religion by government. Moore was ousted from office last year for violating ethics rules by not obeying the federal court order to remove the monument. He is pursuing an appeal. OMG TOOL OF THE DEVIL 2004~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2004 A city council member who said he was inspired by Alabama's ousted chief justice placed a one-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments (search) in front of City Hall on Monday while it was closed for the King Day holiday. Real tactful douche... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BX 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2004 Hooray. Now my state gets to have the same fun that Alabama did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted January 20, 2004 Oh...good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JMA Report post Posted January 20, 2004 Hooray. Now my state gets to have the same fun that Alabama did. And what "fun" it was here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tom 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2004 Funny that these people who are big on the Ten Commandments and the "laws of God" seem to have no problems violating the laws of man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2004 I like how he just got "inspired" and placed a ONE-TON granite monument in front of City Hall on the day it just so happened to be closed. Sounds like a real spur-of-the moment decision... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
