[DeaconBenjamin]

He said that our nation's laws are based on the 10 commandments without qualification. How does the source of this nation's laws speak to Justice Moore's view of his neighbors?

Alabamans may want a monument of any sort in their courthouse. Justice Moore made a name for himself when he clashed with Ira DeMent over the presence of the 10 commandments in his courtroom--not as an interior decorator.

[risk]

>>> How does the source of this nation's laws speak to Justice Moore's view of his neighbors?

Good question! He believes that commandments 1-10 are encoded into the fabric of our laws. In other words, one place or another they are binding on us. So he thinks in California, I can be fined for violating a Sunday law from 100 years ago, or that if I profess to not believe in God, I can be put into the stocks. Now if he'd only uttered the word "inspired" instead of "based," none of this confusion would exist. But he carefully avoided such caution. He also carefully avoided limiting his discussion to Alabamans because he said the entire nation's laws were based on the 10c's.