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January 20, 2004

40 Years in the Just Desserts

OK, so more like 24 hours.:

A one-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments placed in front of Winston-Salem's City Hall by a lone council member was swiftly removed Tuesday.

The monument violated a policy that councilman Vernon Robinson -- who installed the monument Monday -- had voted for in September, said city spokeswoman Carrie Collins. The policy bans public displays or plaques on city-owned facilities without permission of the city council or manager.

"It had nothing to do with what was on the plaque," Collins said. "It was just that it was in violation of city policy."

And it also gave them a cleverly ironic way to prevent the ACLU from suing the pants off of them.

What a maroon.