Stop freaking out over Ten Commandments

Stop freaking out over Ten Commandments displays on government property

Washington Examiner

July 10, 2017

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Just a couple weeks ago, after an intense, lengthy public fight, a monument of the Ten Commandments was finally installed on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol…

Mike Berry of the First Liberty Institute attended the press conference. First Liberty is the authorized counsel, along with the attorney general of Arkansas, to defend the monument. In an e-mail, Berry explained to me the legal reasoning behind the erection of the monument, and the controversy:

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