A North Carolina politician posted a Ten Commandments monument outside his City Hall. Vernon Robinson, a member of the Winston-Salem City Council, said he was inspired to place the monument outside the building on the Martin Luther King holiday by Roy Moore, an Alabama judge who was ousted from his post after he refused to remove a similar monument from a state courthouse.
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