Not against state statue

This looked like an obvious error at first -- surely, "statute" is the intended word.  But I Googled "Kansas statue" just to be sure that the state's laws don't in fact come from a law-giving statue.  While I found no evidence of this, I did find a news story describing a controversial sculpture as a "statute"!
http://fox4kc.com/2012/09/04/next-move-group-against-partially-nude-statue-turns-in-petition/

Could it be that "statue" and "statute" have reversed meanings in Kansas?  Maybe laws in Kansas really are made by inanimate objects -- after all, this is the state that tried to repeal evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_evolution_hearings

Undermining my vocabulary self-confidence even further, other news stories also quote the spokeswoman as using the word "statue", but maybe that's because the original source got it wrong.  In the end, I'm sticking with calling this an error.