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To: lugsoul
Thank you for posting the Moore's opinions about his stunt
Pearls of wisdom from Judge Roy Moore:

"By leaving religion undefined, the Court has opened the door to the erroneous assumption that, under the Establishment Clause, religion could include Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and whatever might occupy in man's life a place parallel to that filled by God ... In such a case, God and religion are no longer distinguished in meaning, permitting the First Amendment to be used to exclude the very object it was meant to protect, namely the sovereignty of God over civil government."

"Americans are free to worship other Gods only because the Judeo-Christian God, and the Judeo- Christian God alone, allows for freedom of conscience."

“You'll find no documents surrounding the Ten Commandments because they stand alone as an acknowledgment of that God that's contained in our pledge, contained in our motto, and contained in our oath.”

"I have no intention of removing the monument. To do so would, in effect, result in the disestablishment of our system of justice in this state.


272 posted on 08/21/2003 10:41:26 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: george wythe
"The real object of the [First] amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government." --- early Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Joseph Story
291 posted on 08/21/2003 10:51:23 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Men...stumble over the truth, but most...pick themselves up...as if nothing had happened."Churchill)
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To: george wythe
Does Judge Moore have 1st Amendment rights to express his opinion?

764 posted on 08/21/2003 4:32:21 PM PDT by WOSG
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