Attorney General Tim Griffin’s legal team continues to stand up for Arkansas’ monument of the Ten Commandments in court.
In 2015, the Arkansas Legislature authorized a privately funded monument of the Ten Commandments on the Arkansas Capitol Building grounds. The monument is identical to one the U.S. Supreme Court ruled constitutional at the capitol building in Texas.
It was unveiled in 2018, but atheist groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Satanic Temple quickly filed a federal lawsuit to have the monument removed. The case has been in legal limbo ever since.
Earlier this month the groups suing the state filed a notice alleging that federal court rulings over Ten Commandments displays in Louisiana support their case against Arkansas’ monument.
However, Attorney General Tim Griffin’s team fired back in court, pointing out the lawsuit in Louisiana is different from the situation in Arkansas and defending the Ten Commandments’ longstanding history and tradition in our country.
As we have said many times, historians have long recognized the Ten Commandments as one of the earliest examples of the rule of law in human history, and they have helped shape philosophy and laws in countries around the world.
That’s why the Ten Commandments traditionally have appeared in artwork at courthouses and similar locations.
Arkansas’ Ten Commandments monument commemorates their cultural and historical legacy. With that in mind, we believe our federal courts eventually will resolve this lawsuit and uphold Arkansas’ Ten Commandments monument as constitutional.
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