A small chapel nestled on a university campus in a rural central Oklahoma town is at the center of a firestorm over the use of religious symbols on public property after a Washington, D.C.-based group insisted that a cross be removed from atop its steeple.
East Central University initially complied with a request from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, removing Bibles and other Christian-themed items from the colonial-style chapel. But before the cross could be taken down, the matter had drawn the attention of religious leaders as well as Oklahoma's Republican attorney general, who's running for re-election next year.
Now, Attorney General Mike Hunter is handling the matter while the university waits to find out whether Americans United for Separation of Church and State will sue.