The story of how the Ten Commandents from Roger Williams Park ended up in West Warwick

PROVIDENCE -- The first time Sandy Sanchez saw the granite tablets at Roger Williams Park she stopped and ran her fingers through the engraved letters.

But one day last fall, Sanchez was surprised to find the Ten Commandments were gone.

In the place where the 8-foot-high monument once stood on a hill between the tennis courts and the zoo parking lot there was only an empty slab.

"My heart sank. It saddened me that it wasn't there," she said. "The first thing I thought was that this was the work of the ACLU," the American Civil Liberties Union. "But I hoped it wasn't so. I hoped the city had taken it out for repairs."

CITY LAWYERS confirmed last week that they began thinking about removing the monument, given to the city in 1963 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, after getting a complaint from a local taxpayer, A. Gregory Frazier, a former lawyer who volunteers for the ACLU. (The Eagles, which claims to have originated the idea of a national celebration of Mother's Day, was first organized in 1898 as a group dedicated to "home, family and community.")

Frazier says he first noticed the display after moving into a house next to the park 24 years ago. Even then, he says, he thought it mixed church and state in impermissible ways. He did nothing because he doubted he'd get very far.

"it mixed church and state in impermissible ways"

This, mostly likely from a member of the student movement that cried out for a more "permissive society" while at university in the 1960's-1970's.

I try, but I can't quite stretch his argument to mean, that the tablet is an act of Congress establishing the Roger Williams Church as the official Church of the United States of America ... or even any lesser possibility that, that is going to happen.

The sheer fanaticism of the leftists at the A.C.L.U. and among its supporters, obsessed with complete eradication of Christian foundations, is becoming for them, a mental state of dark fascism and terror.

For decades after World War II, people wondered at, How did the souls of German people erode?

You can see what it was like, now, in the "heart" of the A.C.L.U., the P.F.A.W., et al.

In Germany, there began the eradication of Jewish foundations.

Now, in the United States, there begins the eradication of Christian foundations.

In both countries, the public under pressure by the socialist propagandists, to fear any attempt to stand up for these foundations.

Soon, we will be reading in the "liberal media," stories of the Hillary Jugen, seeking out every Christian tablet in every public park.

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