"This is a great hypocrisy," Hopkins said. "This is an assault on God. They're saying we're going to cover up God."
Idolatry - of course, what do you expect from untrained pastors....
i.e., "He put himself above me!"
He he he. Only kiddin' :)
If a granite monument of the Ten Commandments is an "idol" then each copy of the Bible is an idol.
This issue is much larger than the placement of a monument in an Alabama courthouse. This is about challenging the core deathforce that permeates every part of the foul, liberal and atheist libertarian agenda that has rotted and canckered the soul of this nation over the past 70 years. You have chosen your side; we have chosen ours.
Its the trained "pastors" that have managed to separate God from the people. Its the "Trained Pastors" that teach that any relationship you wish to have with God must be hidden from the publics view - so what good is the light of God if it must be hidden from the public's view?
I know your answer, but the hypocracy of your answer is simple hubris - even Buchanan would recognize it as such.
Moore makes a case against his monument October 20, 2002
The trial of the lawsuit in Montgomery seeking to remove Chief Justice Roy Moore’s 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments from the state Judicial Building will drag on into this week, but the judge should have little difficulty in making a decision when testimony finally ends.
Moore has made a damning case against his monument.
The chief justice, who took the witness stand on Thursday, came across as exactly the kind of religious zealot that the plaintiffs claim he is. Nothing less than “the future of the nation" rests on his monument, he testified.
Moore said that the washing machine-size monument, which he had installed secretly at midnight, represents a bulwark against what he sees as 40 to 50 years of assault on religious freedom by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court’s decisions have distanced the nation from/sacknowledgment of God, and “without the acknowledgment of God there is a loss of morality," Moore said at the federal court trial in Montgomery.
That is strong evidence of the plaintiffs’ contention that the monument has a religious purpose that violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
But Moore, true to form, didn’t stop there. He said he would not permit Buddhists, Hindus or Muslims to erect monuments to their faiths, because they have nothing to do with what he sees as the moral foundation of law. That foundation, in Moore’s mind, comes from the one true god - his god. The god of any other religion doesn’t meet Moore’s measure.
In another telling bit of testimony, Moore admitted that one of the few people he let in on the secret plans to erect his monument was a Florida TV preacher, D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries. Kennedy had a crew film the installation. Today, he peddles a videotape of it for $19 a pop.
Moore’s defense will spend much of this week talking about moral law and the Ten Commandments, but that isn’t the issue. The legal case against the monument is a slam-dunk. Federal law is clear.
Moore, who is using private money to finance his/sdefense, may face a stiffer judgment. If he loses in U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson’s court, as expected, he will appeal to the Supreme Court - ironically, the same court he accuses of eroding the nation’s moral values.
It’s an expensive proposition, but it will offer Moore’s backers a chance to sell a lot more videotapes. If the court hears the case, Moore will get another national stage to advocate his theocratic views. ************ A demagogue of exquisite talent, indeed.