A Monumental Mistake A judge rules: pull down those Ten Commandments--soon.

Wall Street Journal ^ | December 13, 2002 | MICHAEL NOVAK

[Coeur de Lion]

On Nov. 18, a federal district judge ruled that Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court had 30 days to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the back of the Alabama State Courthouse rotunda. Justice Moore had placed the monument there about 18 months ago, prompting a lawsuit from the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of Steve Glassroth, a lawyer in Montgomery, Ala., whose business often took him to courthouse.

[Coeur de Lion]

I imagine that if the judge had a monument with the code of Hammarabi inscribed on it there probably wouldn't be a problem. Perhaps we need to remove the goddess of justice because goddesses do have something to do with religion. Well no problem we don't believe in goddesses anymore but the Judeo-Christian God that's definitely a problem. So were to ban all elements drawn from Western tradition because they might be conceived as promoting religion. No we don't do that for goddeses because they're just symbolic, nobody believes that stuff anymore. Sure go tell that to the Wiccans.

[Commander8]

Go get 'em Judge Moore!!!

[jlogajan]

I imagine that if the judge had a monument with the code of Hammarabi inscribed on it there probably wouldn't be a problem.

What if he wanted the words of Lenin, Marx or Stalin? I mean there are supporters of those views too. Maybe the state should just stick to Contitutions, laws and statutes and leave religion in the private sphere.

[PatrioticAmerican]

This countrty was founded by Christians. If anyone doesn't like it they can go pound sand.