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When several "reporters" futilely begged Moore to endorse an amendment to the Constitution banning same-sex marriage. ("You can't amend the Constitution for every moral deficit," he replied.)

So Bush wants to take more decisive action on gay marriage than Moore does?

Moore's milking his 15 minutes for all the money and exposure that it's worth.

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'Decisive' action? -

-- Maybe Moore really believes that we shouldn't amend our constitution for the majorities whims of the moment?

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"Moore's milking his 15 minutes for all the money and exposure that it's worth."

Moore took a stand, and paid the price for his conviction. He wound up with hundreds of thousands in legal expenses, and lost his job, because of his religious conviction: A conviction of saying he would acknowlege God in his courtroom, just as Congress does, and the Supreme Court does, at the start of every day.

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Moore introduced the following bill to Congress:

"The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004.”

The bill, (CRA), introduced in Congress on February 13th by former Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, Alabama’s Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), restricts the appellate jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court and all lower federal courts to that jurisdiction permitted them by the Constitution of the United States. The House version is H.R. 3799 and the Senate version is S. 2082.

Sec. 102 of this bill states:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer of Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official personal capacity), by reason of that element's or officer's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government."

This means, that the federal judiciary would be prohibited from interfering with any _expression of religious faith by any elected local, state, or federal official. In other words, federal judges could not prevent the Ten Commandments from being displayed in public buildings or Nativity Scenes from appearing on court house lawns or "under God" from being recited in the Pledge of Allegiance or prayers being spoken in public schools, etc. This bill would limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts in these matters.

The Constitution of every state of the Union acknowledges God and His sovereignty, as do three branches of the federal government.

The acknowledgment of God is not a legitimate subject of review by federal courts.