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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.

How do you figure that Moore's actions show that he is "willing to turn a blind eye to government expansionism when [it] bolsters your interests" ? How is challenging an over-stepping federal judiciary promoting government expansionism? It is only if you believe that placing more power and discretion into the hands of state, rather than federal, governments is expansionistic. The First Amendment is very simply stated, and there is nothing in it that can reasonably be construed as authorizing a federal judge to demand a monument be taken out of a state building because it contains references to religious belief. This should be obvious, but years of expanding the tortured interpretations of a simple sentence, then compounding that error by citing those interpretations as infallible precedents, actually seem to have made many people believe that the First Amendment demands that all traces of religious belief be bleached from American law and public society, rather than being an amendment which protects the rights of such believers within their own states. The Bill of Rights is intended to protect our freedoms, not restrict them.

Moore's battle over this monument is actually quite an opportunity to fight for conservative principles. Frankly, I don't care whether Moore initiated this to further his political career, to preach holy scripture, or because he is simply off his medication - it is still a question of states' rights over federal usurpation, of strict interpretation over judicial activism. These are very conservative principles. Many posts on this thread are twisting this issue into Christianity vs. Atheism, but it truly is a battle of federalism vs. all-powerful central government, strict constructionism vs. loose, and freedom vs. restriction. Think of this legal battle in those terms and all of the discussion about whether Moore is a charlatan or Moses reincarnated will be moot (in a political context).