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Brendan Burke, Star-Tribune :

A First Amendment expert in Laramie said the city of Casper would lose if its officials decide to fight in court to keep a controversial Ten Commandments monument in City Park. ...

After a public hearing on the issue Tuesday night, the Casper City Council voted 5-4 to table a motion to remove and relocate the Ten Commandments monument in City Park and ban any new monuments from city parks. Several residents urged the council to keep the monument, which has been challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Wisconsin. ...

The matter was further complicated last week when the Rev. Fred Phelps of the anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., announced plans for a monument to be placed next to the Decalogue. Phelps' monument would be anti-homosexual in nature and would claim that slain gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is in hell, according to plans offered by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Lawyer: City would lose legal fight

Richard Evans Lee
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I think I just did a search for Westboro's church presence on the web and am shocked and appalled to see Christians behaving in this manner. It's a sad day when a church is focused on hate.

Posted by: Lee Coursey | October 10, 2003 7:22 AM

If Phelps is what God lets into heaven may I never set foot there. I think that Matthew Sheparard will be dropping a rope into hell for Satan himself Phelps. The monument he plans is against seperation of church and state.It should fall under the hate crimes law and he should be charged with inciting hatered. He should put it at his church along with one saying you are entering Hell.

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