Is It Possible For Christians to Help Judge Moore of Alabama to Keep the 10 Commandments Up?

Comte De Maistre

[ComtedeMaistre]

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?

[thoughtomator]

What is the Court going to do if Alabama simply refuses to pay?

[Mears]

Interesting idea. I'd certainly donate a dollar a year and I'm darned sure there are 1.8 million others that would do it.

We have 280 million people in this country.

[Redwood71]

Why doesn't the state of Alabama sell the land the military reservations are on to a private owner and they can charge them a raised fee for land use involving state taxes? Say about 1.5 Mil a year.

[TedsGarage]

Sorry. I respect Judge Moore's faith, but if he refuses to abide by a Supreme Court ruling, he is unfit to be a judge. How can he expect anyone to obey his court when he defies a higher court?

[ibtheman]

The most powerful thing christians can do involving this sad situation, is to pray! Pray without ceasing, give our lord and savior something to work with! PRAY, allow God to do his will reguarding this very sad situation, Intercessory prayer is what is needed in this country, we are living in the end of days! Many will not do what the bible talks about, PRAY! What is really sad, is our supreme court reveal there fruit, not what they put into there mouthes, but what comes out of there mouthes! They are so caught up into there laws, but disreguard God's laws, God's teachings!

[madison10]

It may depend on what "court" Judge Moore considers to be higher. What do you think he should do? Maybe he should just buy the piece of concrete the monument is sitting on. Wait...I just am now patenting/copyrighting that concept. LOL

[madison10]

Hmm...still thinking. Maybe CHRISTIANS could buy the piece of concrete the monument is sitting on. If the building/state would sell it.

[michigander]

Maybe they could just set aside pieces of concrete and if other folks want to erect a similar monument to their religion, they can go for it.

The atheistic one should be really cheap, just empty space.

[Russell Scott]

We have been allowing too many godless judges to make rulings based on their interpretation of the law, not the letter of the law. When you allow corrupt men to make arbitrary rulings based on nothing but their own beliefs, its called tyranny. Nobody is above the law, including judges. How can a country whos foundation documents of law were derived from the Bible, suddenly have judges say no to prayer and Bible in schools, yes to killing babies in the womb, yes to perverted sex acts, yes to special rights for wicked behavior, no to public displays of religious symbols, etc., etc.? And you wonder why we have so many problems in this country, especially within the minds and hearts of the American people.

[drjimmy]

Nobody is above the law, including judges.
I assume you include Judge Moore in this, so that you oppose his refusal to remove the stone monument.

[muawiyah]

Once you read the federal judge's initial ruling in this case (and quit listening to Judge Moore's too frequent yammering about his own beliefs) you would discover that the issue is THE ROCK, not the Ten Commandments.

A federal judge found the rock by itself sufficient to induce in him a transcendant religious feeling.

No wonder the 5th circuit and the USSC don't want to touch this one ~ they've got a whack job federal judge on the case and they just don't want the case to go anywhere else to be defended.

They would be mortified if their little buddy's words had to be justified in public. I expect the federal judge to put in for retirement fairly soon.

[Salvation]

A big bump for Roy Moore and his stand in Alabama!

He is right!

[muawiyah]

Actually, there are things Christians can do besides pray. One of them is "sue".

[dark_lord]

Sorry. I respect Judge Moore's faith, but if he refuses to abide by a Supreme Court ruling, he is unfit to be a judge. How can he expect anyone to obey his court when he defies a higher court?

Gosh. I guess the Dred Scott decision should have been the end of the matter from your perspective. Remember that one? No? Here is the gist of it: Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. The court also ruled that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories. Scott, needless to say, remained a slave.

[Brilliant]

This is not about the 10 Commandments, it's about freedom of religion in general. The 10 Commandments monument is just a vehicle to set up a demonstration of civil disobedience and dramatize the fact that freedom of religion is being eroded by the Courts in America. The next logical step would be to throw Moore in jail. Make Moore a martyr. Maybe the lions are next?

[Lurking Libertarian]

No wonder the 5th circuit and the USSC don't want to touch this one ~ they've got a whack job federal judge on the case and they just don't want the case to go anywhere else to be defended.

It's the 11th Circuit, and it wrote an opinion upholding the trial judge's decision.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...how can he expect anyone to obey his court when he defies a higher court?...

...but he is obeying a Higher Court.

[dalebert]

I am still having problems with this being called a states rights issue when the judge put it there personally. If the district or state put it to a vote to keep the statue then maybe they would have a case? I would put a pillowcase over it and leave it where is stands.

[LibKill]

A federal judge found the rock by itself sufficient to induce in him a transcendant religious feeling.

I've seen mountains and boulders aplenty. I didn't bow down to any of them.

The FedGoon judge just hates religion and will twist words, and law, to fulfill his hate.

Me, I mostly ignore religion. But this ain't right. The order to remove the 'rock' violates freedom of religion.