Editing Haskell County, Oklahoma (section)

==Haskell County Courthouse==
Stigler is home to the Haskell County Courthouse, which has become notable for erecting marble statues of the [[Ten Commandments]] and the [[Mayflower Compact]] on the front lawn (see ''[[Separation of church and state in the United States]]''). In the seventh commandment, the word "adultery" is misspelled.

A unanimous federal appeals court ruled that county commissioners in Haskell County unconstitutionally sought to promote their personal religious beliefs by erecting a Ten Commandments monument on the front lawn of the county's courthouse. The decision by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals comes in a challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Oklahoma on behalf of a local resident.

After the court decision, the marble statue was moved about 600 feet east to private property. Therefore, the statue was still displayed on the main street, available to anyone who desired to view and read the information.