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To: Dallas; 2sheep; Jeremiah Jr; Prodigal Daughter; crystalk
Chief Justice Roy Moore filed notice Tuesday in federal court that he will appeal a judge's order that he remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.

It's as if someone is trying to pull the mezuzah off of his doorpost.

Los Lunas, New Mexico, United States:

>>>Cyrus Gordon (1995) proposes that the Los Lunas Decalogue is in fact a Samaritan mezuzah. The familiar Jewish mezuzah is a tiny scroll placed in a small container mounted by the entrance to a house. The ancient Samaritan mezuzah, on the other hand, was commonly a large stone slab placed by the gateway to a property or synagogue, and bearing an abridged version of the Decalogue. Gordon points out that prosperous Samaritan shipowners were known to live in Greek communities at the time of Theodosius I circa 390 A.D., and proposes that the most likely age of the Los Lunas inscription is the Byzantine period.<<<

http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/loslunas.html

The Ten Commandments monument designed by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is pictured at the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., in this Aug 7, 2001, file photo.

God bless Chief Justice Roy Moore.

17 posted on 12/10/2002 11:25:20 AM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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