Posted on 08/24/2003 9:03:58 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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?"
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Hey, finally a Mooreite who understands that "establishment" in the First Amendment is a gerund, not a noun.
And, for the record, yes - he has "established" that the Book of Exodus is the supreme law of Alabama - superior to its constitution and guarantees against religious establishment, and superior to the United States Constitution and its guarantees against religious establishment.
Are you saying that someone has established a religion and forced Buddhists to attend? Are Buddhists prevented from getting welfare or from voting because they aren't part of the established Catholic Church?
I understand, via this Ten Commandmants debacle how incredibly important it is to have judges who understand our foundations and the DIFFERENCE between the words FOR and OF!!!!
Moore pimped the Ten Commandments as a campaign issue in 1998 to get the office he holds now.
Moore, like Huey Long, has duped a lot of people into thinking he has their best interests at heart because he says "God" every ten minutes.
He's a theocrat, Byron. The fact that he, as Supreme Court Chief Justice, ignored an order from a higher court ought to prove to any thinking person that this is about ROY MOORE, and not any "principle."
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Moore, who served in Vietnam against the Communists, and who know carries on the good fight against their domestic bastard children, the liberals.
Moore, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound! He's a floor wax and a dessert topping! Exposure to Moore can cure tumors in laboratory rats! Moore will balance your checkbook and make perfect fried eggs! But wait, there's Moore!
You have lined up with his enemies and with FR's enemies on this issue, and it is going to take more than a few highly-interpretable Madison quotes to excuse your conduct.
You have lined up with the fair-weather constitutionalists like Moore, who are willing to turn a blind eye to government expansionism when bolsters your interests. I'm willing to bet that you'd quiver like a salted slug at the thought of increased government regulation of anything else, but government backing of Exodus is a nifty idea. Do you really think that government can be trusted to tell us what we should consider to be God's Law? By his words, Moore does.
Some conservative.
So, then, if you live in Alabama you are forbidden to vote if you don't follow the "Exodusian" religion? Or are you forbiddent to receive welfare? Or what?
Maybe you have to take an oath of fealty to the "Exodusian" religion? Can you point me to this oath of fealty?
It's actually 'toeing'. The metaphor is that the person is walking very carefully along a line, which necessitates careful toe placement.
You're forbidden from being considered to have a "real" religion, according to Judge Moore's published statements. And this comes dangerously - and unconstitutionally - close to being forbidden equal rights and equal justice in Alabama courtrooms.
Maybe you have to take an oath of fealty to the "Exodusian" religion? Can you point me to this oath of fealty?
I can point you to Christ's and St. Paul's statements that we should not pay fealty to the commandments of Exodus, but somehow I doubt that's what you're looking for. The "Exodusian" religions which you are seeking to have identified are those which venerate the Book of Exodus as holy. This generally includes the Jews, virtually all sects of Christians, and (in some peoples' opinions) the Muslims. This excludes the Buddhists, the Hindus, the atheists, Shintoists, and the minor religions. Coincidentally enough, Judge Moore is trying to have it declared that the "Exodusian" version of God's word is supreme in Alabama, whether everyone else likes it or not. The federal district court stepped in to restore the civil rights of non-"Exodusians".
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