Posted on 04/27/2017 11:30:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
A good man has been suspended. Again. Ultimately he’s a victim of judicial activism---of judges making things up from the bench and saying it’s what our Constitution requires.
The so-called “Ten Commandments judge,” Roy Moore won election as the chief justice of Alabama for the second time in 2012. Here’s a timeline of his suspension: November 7, 2006. 81 percent of Alabama voters vote on a state constitutional amendment that marriage in that state is one man, one woman. January 11, 2013. Roy S. Moore is sworn in again as Chief Justice. February 3, 2015. Chief Justice Moore wrote a memo to the Alabama Probate Judges, stating, “the rulings in the marriage cases do not require you to issue marriage licenses that are illegal under Alabama law.” March 3, 2015. By a 6-1 decision (Chief Justice Moore not participating), the Alabama Supreme Court ruled the state’s constitutional amendment was valid, and no marriage licenses were to be issued for same-sex couples in what is known as the Alabama Policy Institute (API) decision. June 26, 2015. By a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges. January 6, 2016. Chief Justice Moore wrote a memo to probate judges, referring to the API decision, stating: “Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect.” Retired law professor John Eidsmoe comments: “Note that Chief Justice Moore did not tell the probate judges what to do. He simply noted that the API ruling was still in effect.”
Roy Moore held a press conference (4/19/17), stating, “This was a politically motivated prosecution from the very beginning by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Judicial Inquiry Commission with certain transgender and homosexual groups to remove me from public office because of my stand on same-sex marriage….I’ve done my duty under the laws of this state to uphold the sanctity of marriage and the undeniable truth that God ordained marriage between one man and one woman. Mere human judges have no authority to say otherwise.”
Through the years, I’ve interviewed Roy Moore and have heard him recite a poem (“A Sad But Holy God”) that he wrote (at least before 1998) based on "America the Beautiful"---underscoring our national need to return to God. He gave me permission to quote it for this column.
Roy S. Moore writes:
America the beautiful
Or so you used to be
Land of the Pilgrim’s pride
I’m glad they’re not here to see
Babies piled in dumpsters
Abortion on demand
O, sweet land of liberty
Your house is on the sand.
When your children wander aimlessly
Poisoned by cocaine
Choosing to indulge their lust
When God has said, “abstain.”
From sea to shining sea
This nation has turned away
From the teaching of God’s law
And a need to always pray.
So many worldly pastors
Telling lies about our rock
Saying that God is going broke
So that they can fleece the flock.
And we’ve kept God in our temples
How foolish have we grown
When all the earth is but His footstool
And heaven is His throne.
We’ve voted in governments
That are rotten to the core
Choosing godless judges
Who’ve thrown reason out the door.
Too soft to put a killer
In a well-deserved tomb
But brave enough to kill that child
Before it leaves the womb.
And you think that God’s not angry
That this land’s a moral slum?
(And) how much longer will it be
Before His judgment comes?
And how can we face our God
From whom we cannot hide?
What is left for us to do
But to stem this evil tide?
For if we who are His children
Will humbly turn and pray
If we seek His holy face
And mend our evil way
Then God will hear from heaven
And will forgive us of our sin
He’ll heal this sickly land
And all that live within.
But America the beautiful
If you don’t, then you will see
A sad but holy God
Withdraw His hand from thee.
Suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, whose was officially ousted from the bench this week, is now considering a bid for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, and promised to announce a decision next week.
I would be glad to see Roy Moore run for a Senate seat and even gladder to see him serve.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/20/roy-moore-suspended-supreme-court-chief-justice-we/
Yessiree, Billy-Bob!
Moore gets removed from the bench multiple times all for speaking the truth - and standing on THE LAW and CONSTITUTION. (Isn’t that a judge’s sworn duty?).
Yet here in Arkansas, we have a Circuit Judge for the 6th Judicial District who is as over-the-top racist, and against the rule of Law and the Constitution as any judge that has EVER occupied the bench. I pray I never appear before his bench, as he will throw me under the prison no matter what. He and I had a heated exchange a while back on Facebook that made him very angry.
At that time - he had very publicly stated (repeatedly) that the rioters in Fergusson, MO were 100% justified in their actions - even the violence, looting, and destruction. He also passed “judgment” on the police officer who had shot Michael Brown, having latched on to every lie the media had foisted across the airwaves. He exercised absolutely ZERO reason or judge-like judgment. And when called on his extremely inflammatory statements, he just said them louder. So when the rest of the facts came out - that the shooting was 100% justifiable, and that the officer was indeed fighting for his life - that Michael Brown was anything but a little innocent victim, but was an active, violent street thug... Judge Griffen stuck to his guns and STILL maintained that the rioting was justifiable - Which is when he and I got seriously cross-wise.
But he has a history of extreme public statements, and has issued rulings from the bench that screamed of racist bias.
And his latest - when the Arkansas executions of the last couple of weeks were getting close, he issued a ruling (which he didn’t even have jurisdiction for), walked out of the court room, and literally to an active protest, where he was they figure - playing corpse on a bed.
He is as dirty as a judge has ever been in this state... and the best the state Supreme Court could do (so far) was suspend him from ruling on death penalty cases??? UGH
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/17/wendell-griffen-arkansas-judge-who-stopped-executi/
He has my vote. Problem is too many Alabama residents believe the media image that falsly potrays him as a kook. Like the majority of the dumb downed American voters they are too lazy to investigate further and lazily take the medias word for it. He would be far better than Luther Strange.
On another thread a link was posted where to send contributions. At the moment I cannot locate it.
Every judge should be elected with a term limit - including the SCOTUS. Time to rein these bastard in.
God Bless Roy Moore.
Satan is winning
Various applicable constitutions offer only political solutions for this kind of problem.
But that was the American founding concept.
I believe that Moore is partly right and partly wrong. He’s right that the system has gone insane without a Christian mindset. He’s wrong that when the country has willfully discarded a Christian mindset at a level superior to his that he has any personal authority left to put it back. Either he administers the state’s faux-marriage (which should more properly now be called householding) or nothing at all.
People are embracing the devil with jaws dropped slack open.
Can he move to Arizona and run against McLame? PLEASE!
Well, I might moderate this.
He could try to buck the system in hope it percolates back up to the Supreme Court which really are invested with the de facto power to call the shots on what the Constitution means.
However there is what Jesus warned about, e.g. having enough forces to meet the challenge.
Trying to do it prematurely can get one driven even deeper into defeat. Sometimes the painful wait is the best thing that can be done. Christians can and do encounter times when acting the “kook” is exactly the right thing to do. But this is at the propitious times, even if a martyrdom is possible. The Holy Spirit, not a parochial mindset that takes grace for granted, is the only infallible guide.
I could see worse things than having Moore on the USSC. At least he would be in a position of authority to do something.
I’d want to know more about what his overall philosophy was, however. I do not want to see the salvational grace of God inadvertently bucked. Perhaps our modern “liberals” are the closest that America can come to mirroring God’s endeavors to love the world. It would be better if people who knew Christ better did such mirroring, but maybe God sees that without some element of this, America would die of selfishness.
Some one needs to.
Wow. Wouldn’t that be a hoot if Trump picked him next? Only problem would be getting brain matter all over the place from lib heads exploding!
“Alabama Court of the Judiciary”
What is this court and why is it full of libs? And how are the people of Alabama gonna replace them.
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