The group's GoFundMe page shows that it raised more than $85,000. To pay for the new monument, Rapert created a nonprofit, the American History & Heritage Foundation. Rapert said he plans to work on getting that message into schools.

He added, 'With all of the school shootings that are going on across the country, I think people are improved when they can see daily, 'Thou shalt not kill.' ' 'We believe it's totally acceptable, and it's right and true to remind people about the historical and moral foundation of law.' 'The Ten Commandments are displayed in the United States Supreme Court,' Rapert said in a recent Facebook posting about the Arkansas monument. The high court justices said the Texas monument depicted the commandments in a historical, not purely religious, context. Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled in 2005. Reuters The new monument is a replacement for this one, which was destroyed hours after it was installed on the grounds in June 2017.Д«ackers of the monument say it's meant to copy a Ten Commandments monument in Texas that stands on the grounds of the state Capitol - and that does not run afoul of the U.S. The operator of the camera then told Greaves - in error or to mislead him - that the feed had no audio soon after, he ended the video stream. The group's spokesman and co-founder, Lucien Greaves, made a surprise appearance at the end of Rapert's streaming video from the Capitol grounds on Thursday, walking up to the live-feed camera and citing Arkansas' state Constitution as he spoke against the monument. The Satanic Temple describes itself as 'a non-theistic religious organization' that 'understands the Satanic figure as a symbol of man's inherent nature, representative of the eternal rebel, enlightened inquiry and personal freedom rather than a supernatural deity or being,' according to a statement. By rejecting that monument, the group says, Arkansas is establishing a religious preference. It says the state rejected its offer of a monument that would honor 'pluralism and religious freedom' and represent another viewpoint. And then there's The Satanic Temple, which says it plans to sue the state of Arkansas. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has said it is unconstitutional. Several groups have opposed the monument. Freedom!' as the car careered into the monument.ДЄs for Reed's whereabouts now - he is currently being held at the Arkansas State Mental Hospital, after a county court found him mentally unfit to stand trial, as NPR member station KUAR reported last fall. In the Arkansas incident, a video that appeared to have been taken from inside the car was posted online, featuring a man yelling, 'Oh my goodness.

It was the second time Reed had destroyed a Ten Commandments monument, authorities said, citing a similar instance in which he drove a car into the Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma's state Capitol in 2014. Jason Rapert, a Republican who sponsored the 2015 act that approved the monument's placement on the Capitol building grounds. On Thursday morning, workers used a large crane to lower the new tablet-shape monument into place, in an event that was livestreamed online by state Sen. Reed II drove his Dodge Dart into the first monument hours after it was installed in June 2017. The new Ten Commandments monument is protected on all four of its corners by thick concrete bollards - a step that was taken after a man police identified as Michael T. Now the state has installed a new monument - and it's already facing potential legal challenges. The first version of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol lasted less than 24 hours before it was destroyed by a car last summer.

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