Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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Gwinnett Daily Post
WINDER - The Ten Commandments will once again hang in a Barrow County government building.
In 2005, Barrow County officials were forced to remove a Ten Commandments display from the courthouse's breezeway following a lawsuit initiated by an anonymous resident in 2003. The Board of Commissioners voted in Tuesday's meeting to accept private donations to purchase a nine piece historical display that includes the Ten Commandments, the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Preamble to the Georgia Constitution, Lady Liberty, The Magna-Carta, The Mayflower Compact, The National Motto and the Star Spangled Banner. The display will cost $895 and will hang in the county annex building. "There's no room for it in the courthouse," said Doug Garrison, board of commissioners chairman. "We have $300 in donations and commitments of more." The county will purchase it from the Hartwell-based group Ten Commandments Georgia which contributed more than $213,000 to Barrow County's fight to keep the Ten Commandments on display. Last year, the state legislature passed a bill allowing local governments to post copies of the Ten Commandments in courthouses as long as the displays also include the Mayflower Compact and Declaration of Independence.More like this story
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