Praise Jesus and - If You Really Want to Go There - Satan, Lord Hanuman, Muhammad, Selassie, Adonai and Social Justice

In an engaging cluster-f#*k of political rhetoric meeting constitutional legality, Oklahoma's privately funded, GOP-sponsored state capitol monument to the 10 Commandments, already facing an ACLU lawsuit, now faces another challenge - a proposed neighboring monument "in good taste" to Satan, and maybe a "big and weather-proof" one to the Hindu monkey god Lord Hanuman. Appalled (and oblivous) Oklahoma legislators argue we are "a faith-based nation." Exactly, say Satanists, activists who view their primarily political stance as a “poison pill” in the Church/State debate and who argue in the name of "a rebel angel defiant of autocratic structure." Hindus have now joined in the fracas, as have gleeful atheists who call Oklahoma's constitutional dilemma "beautiful."

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