THIS week I wrote about a battle over religious monuments in Oklahoma City (great town, by the way—vastly underrated). The short version: in 2009 Oklahoma's legislature passed a bill authorising the placement of a monumental version of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol building. The bill specifically stated that the monument be modelled after one in Texas that the Supreme Court found constitutional in a 2005 case called Van Orden v Perry—a nice shot across the bow from the bill's sponsor, Mike Ritze, in advance of the inevitable constitutional challenge.
