DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS: "About 6 feet tall and 3 1/2 feet wide, Phelps' monument would bear a brass plaque reading: 'Matthew Shepard entered Hell October 12, 1998, at age 21 in defiance of God's solemn warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22.'"

A decision in a Utah free-speech case by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last year gives city officials in Casper little choice in the matter, he said.

Because a monument bearing the Ten Commandments has been in City Park since 1965, his monument must be allowed there, too, he said.

In July 2002, the 10th Circuit ruled that governments that allow statements like the Ten Commandments to be posted on public property must permit all other messages, too.