[strela]

why does someone always have to bring up snake handlers

"Snakes ... why does it have to be snakes?" Indiana Jones

how many are there??...a few hundred? thousand?

How many are there of the Jack Chick kooks who run around burning copies of Harry Potter books? The numbers aren't important - the fact that the state has no business espousing one particular religion over another is.

Has Judge Moore been accused of snake handling?

Irrelevant.

Do you know anything about the man himself and his own personal history?

I don't care if he's a combination of Madame Curie and Mahatma Gandhi - by refusing to obey the court order, he spits on the rule of law he swore to uphold.

[wardaddy]

Irrelevant.

Yes...it is. So why'd you bring it up?

[gsrinok]

I don't care if he's a combination of Madame Curie and Mahatma Gandhi - by refusing to obey the court order, he spits on the rule of law he swore to uphold.

The rule of law is not necessarily the spirit of the law. Judge Moore also swore to uphold the Constitution, and the edict from the federal judiciary to remove the monument is certainly against the spirit of the Constitution. Our founders would be embarrassed to see what a bunch of ignorant trolls our federal jurists have become.

[John Twenty 28]

..by refusing to obey the court order, he spits on the rule of law he swore to uphold.

Wow!!!

I guess we have nother vote for the dictatorship of the Supreme Court. This could get depressing.

[WOSG]

the fact that the state has no business espousing one particular religion over another is."

And what particular "religion" is espoused in the following display of Judge Moore's?

Shaped like a cube, this four-foot-tall monument displays the Ten Commandments on the top. Each of the four sides of the cube features famous American words: "Laws of nature and of nature's God" from the Declaration of Independence (1776), "In God we Trust" from our national motto (1956), "One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" from our Pledge of Allegiance (1954), and "So help me God" from the oath of office in the Judiciary Act (1789).

The remaining space on the sides of the cube is filled with quotations from famous Americans such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and our first Chief Justice John Jay, from William Blackstone, and from our National Anthem.

Which religion worships the above American founders?

[WOSG]

"I don't care if he's a combination of Madame Curie and Mahatma Gandhi - by refusing to obey the court order, he spits on the rule of law he swore to uphold."

So, the Nazi guard were *right* after all to say "they were only following orders", since nobody has any right to question orders from "above".

And of course, all those civil rights marchers should have stayed home and in the back of the bus, instead of violating the hallowed laws of segregation. "Dont act 'uppity on me now!'"