http://christiannews.net/2013/08/26/baptist-minister-suing-to-remove-ten-commandments-monument-from-oklahoma-state-capitol/
OKLAHOMA CITY – A Baptist minister is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that seeks to have a Ten Commandments monument removed from the premises of the state Capitol building in Oklahoma.
The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit is minister Bruce Prescott, the director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists. Prescott says that mixing the sacred with the secular in such a manner cheapens the display. Prescott contacted the ACLU last year to complain about the monument, which eventually led to the filing of the lawsuit.
“That monument is an affront to every person who affirms that the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion,” he wrote in a letter to the organization. “I am not opposed to monuments of the Ten Commandments that are placed on private property and/or on the grounds of religious institutions. I am opposed to erecting Ten Commandments monuments on public property and particularly on the grounds of the state Capitol where people of different faiths and of no faith go to exercise their rights as citizens.”
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