Earlier today, about a hundred progressives and even a couple of conservatives showed up on the north lawn of the Oklahoma State Capitol for an event entitled Mary Fallin: Do Your Job – Obey the Constitution. Organized by Jeff Williams and a few others, this grassroots effort grew out of an increasing sense of frustration with the current administration’s slow-rolling the process of removing the religious monument which has been definitively declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court.
Take it down, @MaryFallin pic.twitter.com/cssBvqGUc8
— Blue Ball Skeptics (@BlueBallSkeptic) August 15, 2015
It was truly heartening to see citizens exercising their First Amendment rights—speech, assembly, redress of grievances, and freedom of religion—all in one public space. It was also deeply heartwarming to see atheists and people of faith coming together to support religious liberty for everyone. One speaker thundered against the monument’s graven images as an affront to her faith. Another extolled the virtues of religious freedom from the perspective of the United Methodist Church. Still another detailed the long history of Baptists in laying the foundations of American secularism.
Bruce Prescott (plaintiff in OK Ten Commandments case) explains how Baptists were once pioneers of religious liberty. pic.twitter.com/mOAYKjTIPV
— Blue Ball Skeptics (@BlueBallSkeptic) August 15, 2015
We shall see whether the local news gives us all a fair shake this evening.
Edit: Alas, not so much.
