[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.

[DeaconBenjamin]

I'm not certain that I follow the significance which you have placed between use of the word "inspired" and "based." Certainly I assumed he meant inspired. Be that as it may -- Justice Moore has a record on the bench. Can you point to any instance in which he did not follow the text of the law in his jurisprudence, but instead interjected principles from the 10 Commandments? Otherwise, your concerns sound like an argument one might expect from a fundraiser's spiel -- "send us money to defend against this attack on the American way of life, or it will be the end of the world as we know it..."