Bill Of Rights Monument Slated For Oklahoma Capitol

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By Carmen FormanStaff writer cforman@oklahoman.comOklahoma has a storied history of monuments at the Capitol after a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds incited a legal battle over the separation of church and state. But comedian Chris Bliss has a vision for erecting at Oklahoma’s Capitol a monument that would be unifying instead of polarizing. A shrine to the country’s founding principles. The Bill of Rights. Bliss and his nonprofit organization My Bill of Rights have received approval to place a limestone monument of the Bill of Rights at Oklahoma’s Capitol — his second such monument on his quest to erect tributes to the founding document at all 50 state capitols. “What better time than now to put together a project like this?Read more on NewsOK.com

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