Former Arkansas Republican State Sen. Jason Rapert said he’s faced intense persecution and backlash from liberal groups in the years after he helped erect a monument of the Ten Commandments at the State Capitol.

In an exclusive interview with The Western Journal, he recalled an epic saga in which the biblical monument was erected, destroyed, and replaced, setting off a firestorm of litigation.

Rapert, who is the founder and President of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, helpedpass Act 1231in 2015, after which a discussion began about placing the monument on Capitol grounds.

By 2017, he had helped form the American History and HeritageFoundation,which raised money for the display and obtained the necessary approvals for it to go up.

“Less than 24 hours after that monument was put in, and we took pictures and celebrated that it had finally been installed at the Arkansas Capitol, a man filmed himself running over the monument and destroying it,” he told The Western Journal.

“And so by the next day, the monument that had been put in, thousands of dollars raised to put in the Ten Commandments monument, the man, who ended up being mentally ill, stated that a voice told him to go destroy the monument.”

“We have had threats from many leftist organizations that said they wanted to oppose the monument,” he added. “As soon as we put the reinstalled monument back in April of 2018, immediately thereafter, we were sued.”

Rapert said the state attorney general informed him he would be subpoenaed and compelled to testify in a deposition initiated by various litigants that included the American Atheist Organization, the American Humanist Organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Satanic Temple.

“That was a form of what we now call ‘lawfare.’ They were trying to break me, to break my will, and to break us financially,” he explained. “They came at me because I carried the legislation, I was president of the foundation that raised the money to put in the monument, and… because I am a Christian legislator.”

“The state of Arkansas passed this to honor the historical and moral foundation of law,” Rapert stated. “And so our monument was an exact replica of the Texas Ten Commandments.”

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