Texas riders deliver Ten Commandments to Oklahoma governor

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Horseback riders from a cowboy church in Texas on Friday delivered a stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments to Gov. Mary Fallin and bemoaned the court-ordered removal of a large granite monument from the state Capitol grounds they said represents rejection of God's law.

Eleven riders, led by the Rev. John Riggs of the Texoma Cowboy Church in Wichita Falls, Texas, delivered the tablet to Fallin during an impromptu ceremony on the Capitol's south plaza attended by more than 40 members of Christian churches in Texas and Oklahoma who followed the group's progress during their trek and greeted them with applause.

"We're riding for the law of God today," Riggs said shortly after dismounting his horse. "We fully believe that this country was founded upon the principles of God's word. It breaks our hearts to see where this country is headed and to see the removal of the law of God from our land, from our buildings."

Fallin accepted the stone tablet, measuring about 2-feet long and 1-foot wide, and said she will place it in her office.

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