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Justices won't hear 10 Commandments appeals Moore faces trial next week on violation of judicial-ethics charges The Supreme Court won't be deciding the outcome of the pitched battle over suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument. Justices refused today to hear appeals seeking to put the 5,300-pound granite cube back on display inside Alabama's state capitol. WorldNetDaily reported the controversial monument nicknamed "Roy's Rock" was removed Aug. 28 from the rotunda of the Judicial Building in Montgomery after Moore was suspended by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission for refusing to comply with a federal judge's ordered removal. He...

F R O M D O U G P H I L L I P S A N D T H E V I S I O N F O R U M , I N C . N O V E M B E R 1 , 2 0 0 3 Supreme Court Considers Petition to Hear Alabama Ten Commandments Case Announcement Expected Monday “Before the Federal District Court here in Montgomery sits a bust of the Greek Goddess Themis. You won’t find federal authorities scurrying around to conceal that bust behind a screen. And neither should we hide...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A privately funded 40-foot-high bronze sculpture of five naked women and four naked men has been unveiled on public ground in Nashville, Tenn., and some are questioning why such "artwork" is acceptable while a display of the Ten Commandments is not. The $1.1 million sculpture, called "Musica" and placed in the center of a roundabout on Music Row in downtown Nashville, is meant by the sponsors to provide tourists with a sense of the different types of music that have emerged from Music City. But some observers note there is no obvious connection between naked sculptures and music,...

1. I thy Lord do not exist. 2. Do not take the Lord's name during high-school football games, pledges of allegience, in school, in public buildings... hell, just don't ever take the Lord's name. 3. Do not worship other gods, unless they are named Gaia or Allah. 4. Honor thy Sabbath shopping specials. 5. Honor your parents, and everyone else's parents, by never daring to touch socialist security or medicaid, even if they bankrupt the country. 6. Thou shall not steal, unless the victim makes more than $50,000 a year in which case always call theft "progressive taxation." 7. Thou...

Motivated by what he views as an assault on free speech by the ACLU, a Georgia man has launched a campaign to distribute thousands of Ten Commandments signs across the nation. Robert Frey, a 33-year-old "average guy who's fed up and wants to do something," has set a goal of selling 100,000 signs, suitable for front yards, through a website, TheRevolutionWillBeLive.com. "By joining together in this spiritual battle we can give the ACLU a nightmare of fits when it realizes that the more it and its ilk try to destroy America, the stronger we will be, the louder we will...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - A Milwaukee-based foundation is asking the city to remove its Ten Commandments monument from a public park following complaints from several residents. The stone monument has sat in a corner of City Park since 1965, when it was erected by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles. No one had complained to city officials about the monument in recent years until they received a letter this week from the Freedom From Religion Foundation asking for its removal. ''We have members in Casper who asked me to complain,'' foundation member Annie Laurie Gaylor said. ''That is how we...

DES MOINES (AP) More than 200 Christian conservatives, including Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, rallied Thursday outside the new Iowa Judicial Branch Building, demanding that the Supreme Court display a framed copy of the Ten Commandments donated to the state. We are here to send a message to the Iowa Supreme Court, King said. They have the authority to make that decision. Timm Reid, an attorney for the Iowa Liberties and Justice Center, the legal arm of the Iowa Family Policy Center, which sponsored the rally, offered to defend the court without charge if it s sued for displaying the Ten...

The Federal Judiciary Is A Spoiled Child, And Congress And The President Are The Pushover Parents That Spoiled It! By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon September 16, 2003 People today seem to think that the federal judiciary is the supreme law of the land. They are wrong! The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Just as the executive and legislative branches of government are bound to uphold the Constitution, so is the judicial branch. However, for too long now, the federal judiciary has assumed tyrannical tendencies. What liberal socialists could not do through...

Weird Practices in Alabama by L. Brent Bozell, III Posted Sep 13, 2003 In the minds of the national media elite, Alabama is a strange place that erupts in the news only when some backward action happens. Perhaps it's an abortion clinic bombing, a remembrance of past segregation and racist violence, or some rerun of the strange ways those Bible-thumpin' Christians act. Enlightened journalists no doubt still chortle at the memory of the 1960s singer-satirist Tom Lehrer worrying about when "Alabama gets the bomb." The state's Chief Justice, Roy Moore, brought the national media circus to town by plopping a...

The Lesser of Two Evils Is No Longer Lesser By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon September 12, 2003 Those who believe electing Republicans is going to make a significant difference in the direction of the country need to open their eyes to what Republicans are actually doing. Consider the courageous stand of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore to resist a tyrannical and unconstitutional order from a federal judge to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building. Instead of supporting the brave Chief Justice, Republican leaders in his state betrayed...

One Nation Under God? Patrick J. Buchanan September 1  2003 The granite monument of the Ten Commandments has been rolled out of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery. Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended. Yet, in his defeat there is victory. For Judge Moore's defiance exposed to all Americans the naked hostility of the court to any official expression of belief that we are a nation under God. His defiance revealed how far America has traveled from the Constitution of our Founding Fathers. We no longer see through a glass darkly. We can see clearly now. Under the...

Dear Chief Alabama Justice Roy Moore, I thank thee, thank thee, thank thee for having the temerity to stand up to the United States and the Constitution to make it clear, once and for all, that it is religion that rules this country and not the people and their laws. I was beginning to lose faith that our top officials would be able to undermine the will of people all over the country, undermine the U.S justice system, and bring some good old fashioned Bible sense back into government. But people like you, the Reverend Attorney General John Ashcroft and...

Dear ACLU: Congratulations, comrades! You've won again! Removing Judge Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument from the State Courthouse in Alabama was nice, but it was only the first step in a logical, necessary progression to eliminate the influence of God from all vestiges of American society! Your work is far from over! The next step is to remove the words "In God We Trust" from our currency, so not to “offend” the atheists worried the phrase is an "establishment of religion." Then you must work to remove the 10 Commandments etched in marble above the Supreme Court's bench. Fear not,...

Alabama Justice Chides Fellow Republicans Fri Aug 29, 9:06 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By PHILLIP RAWLS, Associated Press Writer MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his supporters have violated Ronald Reagan (news - web sites)'s 11th commandment: Never speak ill of a fellow Republican. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: Alabama Ten Commandments Monument In terse remarks, Moore chided the governor, state attorney general and his eight Supreme Court colleagues for publicly disagreeing with his defiance of a federal court order to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse rotunda. The...

On Wednesday Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor oversaw the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state Supreme Court building. Pryor believes that the court ruling ordering the removal was incorrect. After all, the U.S. Supreme Court building itself has depictions of the Ten Commandments. The court opens its sessions with an invocation of God. And we know the other familiar elements of state-sponsored religion in America, from the chaplains in Congress to "In God We Trust" on the coinage. Despite his personal views, Pryor was unequivocal in ordering the removal. He was equally unequivocal in...

Phyllis Schlafly Aug. 27, 2003 Federal court decisions about the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments, and the specter raised in Lawrence v. Texas that marriage may no longer be defined as the union of a man and a woman, show that the time has come to curb the Imperial Judiciary. Not only did one federal judge overturn a nearly 60 percent majority of California voters who passed Proposition 187 in 1994, but another single federal judge in Sacramento is at this moment threatening to cancel the California recall election! Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers 78, 81...

<p>By Jan Fletcher, Faith Correspondent A seven-hour drive to Montgomery, Ala., Monday, brought one Campbellsville man to the very center of the national controversy over public display of the Ten Commandments.</p> <p>Ricky Cox, a dentist and former state representative, made the decision Monday morning to leave for the showdown at the Alabama Judicial Building after his office closed at 5 p.m. He was back at work at 10 a.m. Tuesday, after participating in a vigil for three hours -- from midnight to 3 a.m. -- alongside 150 protesting citizens. Protesters vowed peaceful resistance to stop a court order to remove a 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments.</p>

Those Ministers Who Say Judge Moore Acted Improperly Need To Tear Daniel Chapter Six Out Of Their Bibles! By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 29, 2003 I have listened to minister after minister publicly rebuke Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore saying, as a Christian, he should have obeyed federal judge Myron Thompson's unlawful order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building. Those ministers need to reread Daniel chapter six. Daniel was a government official in the court of King Darius. In fact, Daniel was the second-in-command answering only to...

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10 "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[1] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' 13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would...

Through his spokeswoman, President Bush has ventured a cautious opinion on the controversy over the Ten Commandments monument in Alabama. Deputy Press Secretary Claire Buchan (BYOO'-kan) says it's important that laws and court rulings be respected. However, she notes that some courts have ruled it's O-K to erect displays of the Ten Commandments -- while others have forbidden it. Either way, she says, rulings can be appealed. But that's the most she'd say -- even though the president has made the encouragement of faith-based social work a central part of his administration. She didn't say whether Chief Justice Roy Moore...

<p>Only one in five Americans approve of the federal court order under which workers removed the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building Wednesday, according to a new poll.</p> <p>The new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll found 77 percent of the 1,009 Americans interviewed earlier this week disapproved of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson's order to remove the monument.</p>

Did Judge Roy Moore Violate His Oath? Jason Gaston When he took his oath to become a judge, Roy Moore solemnly swore to "support the Constitution of the United States" and "honestly discharge the duties of the office upon which he's about to enter." They're serious words for a serious job. We showed the oath to people in the Heart of the Valley. We wanted to know whether they thought Judge Moore has upheld it. "I certainly think he violated this by going too far on this Ten Commandments thing. He's supposed to uphold this (oath of office)," Breanie Jacobs...

LAW OF THE LAND Decalogue dismantled Workers move Alabama monument to non-public part of judicial building Posted: August 27, 2003 10:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The fight over the Ten Commandments monument ordered removed from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building by a federal judge has come to a head as workers moved the two-ton Decalogue from its display area. It took little more than an hour for three workers and a security guard to hoist the washing machine-sized granite cube onto a dolly and scoot it out of view of television cameras to an undisclosed location. Seeking...

Commandments fray goes beyond Alabama Christian proponents have been on the losing end of legal battles, but many now feel energized by a new cause. By Glynn Wilson | Special to The Christian Science Monitor MONTGOMERY, ALA. - Jesse Truax, wearing a crown of thorns, is grimacing from the prickle as sweat wends down his cheeks in the sweltering heat. After a daylong bus ride, he's here all the way from Eustis, Fla., with a group of 33 from his Baptist church, vowing to "stay as long as it takes" to keep the sacred Ten Commandments monument here in the...

<p>Let's say the Supreme Court of the United States allows the chief justice of the great state of Alabama to keep his 2-ton monument to the Ten Commandments in his office building in Montgomery.</p> <p>Which Ten Commandments?</p> <p>You've got your Jewish Ten Commandments, your Catholic Ten Commandments, your Lutheran Ten Commandments, your Charlton Heston Ten Commandments, your King James Bible Ten Commandments, your New Revised Standard Version Ten Commandments, and they don't all agree as to which commandment is which -- or what they really mean.</p>

BREAKING NEWS From Doug Phillips and the Vision Forum, Inc. A U G U S T 2 5 , 2 0 0 3 Stealth Move Against the Chief Justice Opponents of Moore Change His Locks and Bar Him Access to Supreme Court Office - The Chief Justice to hold national press conference at 3:00 p.m. (CDT) - The Chief Justice on Focus on the Family today - Alan Keyes explains why the Chief Justice is upholding the rule of law - Concerned citizens urged to call and protest stealth move against the Chief Justice In a series of stealth moves...

Alabama residents are wreaking a nasty revenge on the woman who took their state’s chief justice to court over his religious monument Aug. 22 — By stubbornly refusing a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument in his courthouse, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been hailed by Christian fundamentalists as a man of great courage. Lesser known, but no less courageous is the woman who dared stand up to Justice Moore. FOR HIS DEFIANCE, Moore has become a home-state hero, paving the way for a future run for a U.S. Senate seat. For her brave...

Civil Disobedience Is Consistent With Christian Conduct And With American History By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 26, 2003 While Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's refusal to remove a Ten Commandments display from the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery is not, in strict terms, civil disobedience, many people see it that way. Actually, the federal judge who ordered the monument's removal, Myron Thompson, and those who support him are guilty of breaking the law! The U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government from interfering with the state's or the individual's right to express or...

Beyond the fight-or-flight reactions to the Alabama Ten Commandments controversy, questions about strategy have gone undebated-here's a start ... Deadline day in Montgomery, Ala., was polarizing: Federal judges on Thursday, Aug. 21, were persisting in their order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. Police were handcuffing and leading away demonstrators defending the monument. Eight of the nine Alabama Supreme Court justices agreed to comply with the federal order. They directed the building manager to "take all steps necessary to comply ... as soon as practicable." But on one sentiment many from all...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's chief justice was suspended Friday for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. Roy Moore was automatically suspended with pay when the nine-member Judicial Inquiry Commission referred an ethics complaint against him to the Court of the Judiciary, which holds trial-like proceedings and can discipline and remove judges. Ruby Crowe, an assistant clerk working with the court, said Moore will have 30 days to respond. Moore met with the commission earlier Friday as about 100 of his supporters, several blocks away at the...

FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE Top of the fold... Two weeks ago, The Federalist noted the remarkable parallel between bishops in the Episcopal Church who "interpret" Scripture to comport with their political and social agendas in violation of their ordinal vows, and judges who "interpret" the Constitution to comport with their political and social agendas, in violation of their oath to uphold our nation's legal foundation. Neither interpretation does not honor the original word and intent of those founding texts. Instead, they offer nothing more than a reflection of themselves as if they authored those venerable words. Regarding the word of law, our...

Showdown in Montgomery By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 22, 2003 I was privileged to be in attendance at a rally in front of the Alabama Supreme Court building Wednesday evening where hundreds of concerned citizens had gathered to express their support for Judge Roy Moore's decision to ignore a federal judge's order to remove a display of the Ten Commandments from the building. Speakers included Alan Keyes, Rick Scarborough, and Patrick Mahoney. This case is just now beginning to draw media attention and, unfortunately, has yet to draw the attention and, yes, outrage, of...

The people's judge Posted: August 22, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments." – James Madison Alabama's Chief Justice Roy Moore is a national hero. He became one in 1995 when, as a circuit-court judge in the state, he placed a hand-carved...

<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. — State Supreme Court justices overruled Chief Justice Roy Moore (search) on Thursday and directed that his Ten Commandments (search) monument be removed from its public site in the Alabama Judicial Building.</p> <p>The senior associate justice, Gorman Houston, said the eight associate justices instructed the building's manager to "take all steps necessary to comply ... as soon as practicable."</p>

Amendment I (Religion) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Supremes refused to support Judge Moore in his quest to defend the moral foundations of American Law - the Ten Commandments. It's been reported that the state of Alabama will be fined $5,000 for each day that Alabama keeps the commandments monument. That adds up to just over $1.8m a year. Would it be legal and proper, if Christians all over America, donated the $1.8m a year to the State of Alabama, required to keep the monument up, so that no social services are cut by Alabama's expense in paying for the cost of keeping up the monument?

Alan Keyes on the Sean Hannity Show ~~~ August 19, 2003 HANNITY: It's an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure to invite back to our microphones--it's been a while--former Ambassador to the United Nations Alan Keyes. You were U.N. Ambassador, correct? KEYES: I was Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. I worked with Jeane Kirkpatrick. HANNITY: How are you doing? It's been forever now. How are you doing? It's been a while. KEYES: Oh, I'm doing pretty well. HANNITY: I understand you're out doing a lot of speaking around the country--or? KEYES: I've been doing a...

The Blackout of 2003 Is In Montgomery, Not In New York And Cleveland By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon August 19, 2003 All weekend, the major media saturated America's news outlets with the story of the massive power outage in parts of New England and the Midwest. While this is a major story, it pales into insignificance when compared to those events currently unfolding in Montgomery, Alabama. What is happening at the Alabama capitol will literally determine the future of this country for the foreseeable future. Yet, the establishment press has virtually blacked out the story....

I received an e-mail yesterday from the Constitution Party (CP)/Alabama informing me of a 10 Commandments Rally scheduled for August 16 at 10:00am in Montgomery, AL in the Judicial Building.The CP is coordinating members from surrounding states to attend this important rally. This rally is in support of Judge Roy Moore, the "10 Commandments Judge," and in support of keeping the beautiful display of GOD'S LAW forever present in the Judicial building. The latest court ruling says the 2 1/2 ton display must be removed within 15 days. For more info contact MaryAnn Crum: e-mail, dcrum@powernet.org

Impeach the Supreme Court Posted: July 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern There's a rising chorus of anger across the land in response to three U.S. Supreme Court decisions within a week that strip the people of their power, eviscerate the rule of law and illegitimately empower nine unaccountable high priests in black robes. In the first case, in a 5-4 ruling, the justices found the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause really doesn't mean what it says. They found there is a compelling state interest to discriminate on the basis of race to promote a more diverse society. The court ruled that...

LAW OF THE LAND 10 Commandments judge defies court order Alabama chief justice won't remove granite monument from state building Posted: July 3, 2003 3:30 p.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore vowed yesterday to keep a 2? ton granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the judiciary building in Montgomery, in defiance of a federal appeals court order to have the testimonial removed. "We must defend our rights and preserve our constitution," Moore told reporters. "For the federal courts to adopt the agenda of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)...

Montgomery, Ala.-A federal appeals court panel displayed skepticism and sympathy toward the claim of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore that a monument to the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building is a constitutionally protected acknowledgement of God. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals met June 4, in Montgomery to hear Moore's appeal of a lower court order to remove the 2 1/2 ton granite monument. The American Civil Liberties Union and two other groups--Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Southern Poverty Law Center--filed suit in 2001 to remove the monument,...

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It's Now Official: Individuals and Cultural Diversity Determine Right or Wrong by William R. Darcy Sometimes the signposts of massive cultural change are not always evident. Being sympathetic to the plight of individuals and being tolerant of the opinions of others has always been a strength of America. And in a nation of immigrants it has always been easier (but not easy) to curb the natural human tendency to be suspicious and downright hostile to those of another clan or country. But since the 1960s, and with increasing force in the 1990s, those tendencies have been transformed into a view...

<p>ROSSVILLE, Tenn. — Like a modern-day Moses descending from the mountaintop with two tablets of stone, June Griffin travels across Tennessee with one piece of paper in her hand: a declaration in support of 10 biblical laws.</p> <p>She's crafted her treatise in the form of a resolution. And just as Moses chided the children of Israel to turn from their evil ways and live by the Ten Commandments, Griffin wants every county commission in Tennessee to go on record in support of the Old Testament tenets and state that they will defend the right to display them.</p>