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Transcript: Profile: Controversy of 10 Commandments in Grand Junction Colorado
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- March 19, 2001
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Profile: Controversy of 10 Commandments in Grand Junction Colorado
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
In Grand Junction, Colorado, a granite tablet of the 10 Commandments
has been displayed in front of City Hall for more than 40 years.
Tonight the Grand Junction City Council will vote on whether to remove
the tablet. At issue is whether government has the right to display
the 10 Commandments on public property. Colorado Public Radio's Laura
Carlson reports.
LAURA CARLSON reporting:
Grand Junction isn't one of those ritzy resort towns Colorado is famous
for. It's west of the mountains, in high desert canyon country near ...