More on monuments

[Ed Darrell]

In a message dated 98-11-05 16:53:13 EST, slevinson at MAIL.LAW.UTEXAS.EDU
writes:

<< Let me ask the question I often ask my students:  whom would you rather
 represent on a contingent-fee basis, the State of Texas or the curmudgeon
 like myself who is perturbed by the placement of the monument?  Do any of
 you know of similar monument occupying such visible (and clearly
 significant) public space? >>

1.  I understand there is a very impressive statute of Moses in Boston's
courts building.

2.  A group of Texas atheists recently erected a monument to a group of German
settlers who colonized the Hill Country.  These "Freethinkers" are listed in
all the state history books, but the county commission decided that having a
monument to these settlers smacked too much of formal disestablishment of
religion.  The monument, a huge stone, has been removed.  It may yet be
litigated.

Ed Darrell
Dallas