Roy Moore: In God I Trust

Opinion Journal ^ | 08/25/03 | ROY S. MOORE

[Pokey78]

Why I'm standing up for the Ten Commandments in Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Ala.--The battle over the Ten Commandments monument I brought into Alabama's Supreme Court is not about a monument and not about politics. (The battle is not even about religion, a term defined by our Founders as "the duty we owe to our creator and the manner for discharging it.") Federal Judge Myron Thompson, who ordered the monument's removal, and I are in perfect agreement on the fact that the issue in this case is: "Can the state acknowledge God?"

[LiteKeeper]

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[I_Love_My_Husband]

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[lilylangtree]

Go Roy go!

[thoughtomator]

I don't think he went into this without being prepared... this is very compelling stuff! Definitely not the flake some have intimated him to be.

[lone star annie]

Prayers are with you Roy!!! Refuse to go to the back of the bus.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Phyllis Schlafly says the following:

Phyllis Schlafly

Myron H. Thompson was confirmed as a federal judge by the Democratic Senate in 1980, only a few months before the Reagan landslide. If the Republicans had delayed confirmation, a Reagan appointee would have filled the seat Thompson now holds.

[narby]

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It does not take a constitutional scholar to recognize that I am not Congress, and no law has been passed.

The 14th amendment will be quickly quoted here. But the 14th guarantees that "priviledges and immunities" granted by the US constitution will be binding in the states (Duh - if they weren't binding in the states, then where WERE they binding).

But the 1ST Amendment rule preventing Congress from establishing an official religion (done specifically because some states at the time DID have official religions, and the states would not tolerate the Congress stepping on their turf), is NOT a priviledge or immunity of an individual. Therefore, the 14th does not modify the original meaning of the 1st in this case.

[xzins]

By subjugating the people of Alabama to the unconstitutional edict by Judge Thompson, that public officials may not acknowledge God, the attorney general and my colleagues have made the fiat opinion of a judge supreme over the text of the Constitution. While agreeing with me that the Constitution is supreme, and that the opinion of Judge Thompson was contrary to the Constitution, the attorney general has argued that he must follow an order he himself believes to be in direct violation of the supreme law of the land.

This is the crux of the issue.

Moore's Constititution says in its text, "Almighty God." The U.S. Constitition says, "Lord."

How can it be unconstitutional to acknowledge what the texts themselves acknowledge.

How can the texts be the supreme law of the land if a judge rules the texts don't contain what they clearly contain.

[fabian]

It's the same illogical thinking that has taken God and creationism out of public schools. God bless Judge Moore.

[goldstategop]

Chief Justice Roy Moore argues judges should interpret and enforce not make the law. And that is exactly where federal judge Myron H. Thompson exceeded his lawful authority, by making through judicial fiat a law where Congess intended none.

[kylaka]

Why is it that the next time someone enters Myron H. Thompson's courtroom to give testemony about this or that they will have to place their hand on a Bible and swear to GOD to tell the truth? Am I missing something?

[sinkspur]

No judge has the authority to impose his will on the people of a state

Roy Moore's own words. Out of his own mouth.

Cooked his own goose.

[CARepubGal]

Interesting. The liberals fear God it seems and not in a good way. I guess there will be no swearing to tell the "Whole truth, nothing but the whole truth so help me GOD" in that courtroom. Judge Thompson needs a good swift kick in the heinie.

[sinkspur]

Why is it that the next time someone enters Myron H. Thompson's courtroom to give testemony about this or that they will have to place their hand on a Bible and swear to GOD to tell the truth?

They don't have to.

Swearing on a Bible is now optional, in federal court, and in most states.

[sinkspur]

Judge Thompson needs a good swift kick in the heinie.

Do the entire nine judges on the 11th Circuit, one of the most conservative in the country, and made up mostly of Reagan appointees, deserve the same swift kick? They affirmed Thompson's decision.

You know, I'm beginning to suspect that Judge Roy has a problem with Judge Myron Thompson that goes beyond Thompson's decision, since Judge Roy always mentions Thompson, but never mentions the 11th Circuit who backed him up.

Thompson, you see, is black.

[xzins]

One of the great influences on the Founding Fathers, common law sage William Blackstone, once pointed out that judges do not make laws, they interpret them. No judge has the authority to impose his will on the people of a state, and no judge has the constitutional authority to forbid public officials from acknowledging the same God specifically mentioned in the charter documents of our nation, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.....when we don't put another man's statements in the proper context.

Moore is NOT the judge who ignores the words "Almighty God" in the Alabama constitution.

[magellan]

Roy, if the law was on your side, why didn't you file a request for a stay when you could?

Oh, that's right, because if you had you would not have a chance to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

Roy's publicity campaign has worked flawlessly. He has gotten plenty of airtime without spending a dime.

Once he decides to run for Governor, he can solicit money from all over the U.S., because he is now a national figure. He will handily beat Bob Riley in the Republican primary, and just as handily lose the general election.

Don Siegelman probably could not be happier. Roy Moore will guarantee Don will get his old job back.