Years of fighting over a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma Capitol came to a quiet end on Monday — for now, at least — as workers removed the display late at night and trucked it away.

Facing a court-ordered deadline of Monday to remove the carved granite slab in Oklahoma City, the state lent the monument to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a conservative policy group that will display it on private property a few blocks south of the Capitol.

Starting after 10 p.m., a work crew using cutting tools and a crane took a little more than an hour to dislodge the two-and-a-half-ton monument and load it onto a flatbed truck.

Whether the issue has been put to rest remains to be seen; some lawmakers want to amend the state Constitution to allow the monument to return.