10 Commandments graveyard
• Christian Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist sight-seers stop in Mobile Alabama for a glimpse of Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument but there's nothing to see.
Tall, bearded and wearing a jersey with a silk-screened image of the Ten Commandments monument, Steve Kukla, 53, paces about the Supreme Court rotunda, looking at the spot where the stone used to sit. Kukla and his wife, Bonnie, are singing evangelists who live in Tulsa, Okla. They were driving from Louisiana to Atlanta when they decided to stop and pay homage to the Ten Commandments. "We came specifically to see where the monument was," says Steve Kukla. "It's a solemn feeling," says his wife, stepping up next to him.
They take photos of each other in the vicinity of the flags; they look around at the empty spaces. They see a bronze copy of the Bill of Rights near the entrance foyer. "It's like visiting a graveyard," says Steve Kukla, "a graveyard of the moral absolute this country once stood for."
Roy Hoffman, Religion News Service: The Tourist Attraction That Isn't There