Oklahoma GOP Offers to House Ousted 10 Commandments

The Oklahoma Republican Party is offering to house a Ten Commandments monument that has been ordered to be removed from the state Capitol grounds by Oct. 12.

Following an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled earlier this year the monument violated a provision in the state constitution.

Now Republicans, represented by interim chairman Estela Hernandez, proposed placing it at the home of the state GOP headquarters, a mile north of the state Capitol grounds.

"It really defines us as a nation," she said, according to KFDR. "We really are a moral nation, and when we look at those laws that are enshrined in that monument, that's what we follow today."

Hernandez said that donations will pay to move the monument, adding that she isn't worried about alienating non-religious Republicans.

"We don't all believe the same, and we don't all have the same values. That's okay," she told KFDR. "I respect those individuals who have a different view as I do, but at the same time we can come together and see not only a symbol to what our nation was founded on, it's a symbol of respect, a symbol of history."

"And we can't forget really where we came from and how we became the America we are today and why we are the most powerful nation," she said. "It's because we have not put God to the side."