While some people are interpreting the Supreme Court's Ten Commandments cases to allow more relgious monuments on public property than a fair reading would indicate (see prior posting), others are leaning too far in the other direction. The Daily Freeman reported on Saturday that the mayor of Kingston, NY has ordered an artist to remove her sculpure from the annual art show held for three months each year on the court house lawn. At issue is a wooden sculpture of a horse, titled "Atticus". The problem is that the Ten Commandments, psalms and other biblical references are carved into the pieces of driftwood from which the sculpture is made.
UPDATE: Officials and the artist, Rita Dee, have agreed to move the sculpture across the street to the grounds of the Old Dutch Church, according to the July 6 Record Online.
