[gdani]

What is your "cause?"

Who says I have a "cause"? I just think it's logically & tactically stupid to compare the Judge Moore circus sideshow to the civil rights movement.

Myabe you're right about Rosa Parks. If you are, so what? I don't see how it matters.

[GrandEagle]

Who says I have a "cause"? I just think it's logically & tactically stupid to compare the Judge Moore circus sideshow to the civil rights movement
Interesting lack of understanding to call Judge Moore's cause a circus sideshow. But you are entitled to your opinion.
There is far more to this than just the display of the 10 Commandments. At issue here is the rule of law - in this case, the Constitution. The Constitution specifically forbids the Federal government from having any say what so ever of an establishment issue. That authority is reserved specifically to the states. A very brief review of history will reveal that many of the states had state established religions well into the mid 1800’s. These states were governed in many cases by the very people who wrote our Constitution. It would be very difficult to argue that they didn’t understand it since they wrote it. There is an argument that the 14th amendment makes the entire Constitution apply to the state legislatures. I disagree but for sake of argument, let’s say it did. Then the State legislatures would also be expressly forbidden to even speak on the subject and the people would retain the authority. The question at stake here is can a federal judge simply declare, without any legal authority, that something must or must not be done and have his illegal ruling have the effect of law. If so then we fought the Revolutionary war for no reason. That was pretty much the state of affairs while we were a colony.