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AP: Chapel stirs up controversy in small Oklahoma college tow

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University of Oklahoma law professor Joseph Thai: "Controversies such as this one over religious monuments and symbols on public property have spawned litigation across the country, with wins and losses on both sides, stirring up the very kind of religious divisions that the First Amendment was adopted in part to prevent."

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