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House committee advances resolution to return Ten Commandments monument to Capitol grounds
Summary
The House Committee on State Government approved House Joint Resolution 15, as amended, to return a granite Ten Commandments monument donated in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles to the state Capitol grounds; committee members debated history, legal precedent and whether other faiths should be represented.
The House Committee on State Government voted to advance House Joint Resolution 15, as amended, to return a granite Ten Commandments monument donated to the Commonwealth in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles to the new State Capitol grounds in Frankfort.
Sponsor Representative Shane Baker of the 80th District told the committee the monument is a piece of state history and said restoring it is “historic restoration and acknowledges the history and tradition of the Commonwealth and our nation.” Baker described the 1971 donation, its removal in the 1980s for a construction project and subsequent litigation that led to the monument’s display in Hopkinsville.
Baker framed the resolution around recent U.S. Supreme Court shifts away from the Lemon v. Kurtzman…
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