Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
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Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
August 15, 2003
(Talon News) -- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore defiantly declared Thursday that he has no intention of removing a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state judicial building. He will instead file papers taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Moore said, " We have a federal judge saying we can' t recognize who God is, yet that' s the basis of our justice system." Moore said he plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a federal judge from enforcing an order to remove the monument.
Moore also challenged the authority of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, who ruled the monument violates the constitution' s ban on government promotion of religion saying, " They have the audacity to come into our court and say we have to remove the foundation of our law, which is the Ten Commandments."
Thompson said fines of about $5,000 a day would be imposed against the state if the monument were not removed by August 20.
" I have no intention of removing the monument," Moore said at a news conference. " This I cannot and will not do."
Attorneys who sued to remove the monument filed a judicial ethics complaint Thursday against Moore for disobeying Thompson' s order. Richard Cohen, a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center that joined the lawsuit, said it was a sad day for the state to have a public official saying he would defy a court order.
Moore' s argument was likened to the claims of segregationists such as Alabama' s Gov. George C. Wallace in the 1960s.
Moore pledged to ask the Supreme Court to overrule Thompson. He accused Thompson of a " callous disregard for the people of Alabama" and their tax dollars. The promised fines would add to the approximately $125 million the state has already spent defending the monument' s place in the building' s rotunda. Moore indicated that the state is spending $25,000 a day of taxpayers' money on the case.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell and former Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes are scheduled to speak at a weekend rally in Montgomery in support of the monument.
Moore' s action is the latest in the growing movement to reverse decades of court rulings that Christians say have purged God from public life. The high water mark for such rulings came last year when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declared the " Pledge of Allegiance" to be unconstitutional. Congress passed a resolution that helped stay the ruling.
Since that time, advocates of religious expression have scored several victories. In Pennsylvania on Wednesday, a federal appeals court refused to reconsider a ruling that allowed a decades-old Ten Commandments plaque to remain on the facade of a courthouse in suburban Philadelphia.
After a year of debate, the city council of Altoona, PA reversed course and voted to rehang a Ten Commandments plaque in its city hall, where it hung for 75 years. Councilman Wayne Hippo introduced the amendment, saying that a ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia and a subsequent ruling in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh reinforced the notion that the Ten Commandments were not necessarily a religious display.
The city council in La Crosse, Wisconsin voted to appeal a federal judge' s order that a Ten Commandments monument be removed from a city park. Mayor John D. Medinger vetoed the 15-2 result on Wednesday, a move the council is expected to override.
The Snohomish County Council of Washington state has given its unanimous support for the town of Everett' s Ten Commandments monument, the subject of a federal lawsuit. In a 5-0 vote County Council members passed a resolution supporting the city' s efforts to keep the 6-foot-tall granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments.
Last month, a Washington, DC-based group sued the city of Everett for refusing to remove the monument from city property.
" We have slid rapidly down the slippery slope of anti-religion policies," Councilwoman Mary Kay Voss said. " And it' s time to take back our country."
RE: Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
no , your not missing anything vapodog , just typical liberalism at work , trying to rip the basis of our nation to shreds as usual . take guns out of america , now take god out of america , i even heard they' re going to remove the words " in god we trust " from the newer money that they print up. anybody else hear about that ??
RE: Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
I cant remember who said it, but one of our forefathers said that the freedoms as outlined in our Constitution if excercized without morality, would lead to anarchy and total collapse. The naysaysers constantly spill their bilge about " freedoms of religion" but back in the earliest days of our nation the morons that espoused such things like Wiccan principles and even other non-Christian values were either locked up or outright done away with!
GOD and Country were as inseperable as freedom and responsibility. But the liberals today have been given WAY to much headway and since the days of FDR have marched towards a 180degree " rewrite" of EVERYTHING this nation is and what it stands for. Thank GOD for this judge in AL for having the balls to tell the Feds and anyone else " with a problem" where they could stick their rulings/issues. Sadly in the end I' m sure they will be removed. Thats what happens when you take away states rights and place those " powers" in the hands of some fat, non-Christian liberal sitting in Washington whose feelings were hurt when they were a child and so they have spent their lives " makin up for lost time" and want to inflict as much boosheut on everyone else.
If this DOES stick you can bet some leftcoast pansie liberal judge to install excerpts from the Koran onto the walls of a courthouse in CA. And I PROMISE you that the liberals and the fencesitters (the TRUE scourge of the nation) in the nation will have a million excuses and reasons why its ok for that religion but not Christ.
RE: Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
another thing i heard in church this sunday was that this judge who won' t take the ten commandments down is being threatened with a $5,000.00 dollar a day fine for every day they are still on the wall , now that is just outright disgusting [:@][:@]
so i wonder when they are going to do away with the swearing in of the witnesses with the bible ?? [:@]
Alabama Chief Justice Won' t Bow on Ten Commandments Monument
