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rurallib

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4. this is interesting - looks like the legislature can pick who gets to place monuments
Thu May 18, 2017, 08:40 PM
May 2017

which in effect makes them the picker of which religions the state will support. They may have a hard time defending that one:

Two other groups submitted applications to the Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission for permission to place monuments at the Capitol celebrating Satanism and the separation of church and state, but earlier this year the state Legislature passed a law to require legislative approval for any monument at the Capitol, and those proposals do not have legislative approval.

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