Posted on 08/20/2003 7:00:21 PM PDT by Selmo
Supporters of Chief Justice Roy Moore have been handcuffed and led away from the Ten Commandments monument in Montgomery. They had refused to leave the monument after Moore lost a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon. The federal judge who ordered the monument's removal is now expected to consider a contempt of court finding on Friday. That could set the stage for the monument to be removed ... or fines imposed on the state.
Scores of Moore supporters sang and prayed outside the building as about 20 inside were removed from the rotunda. It wasn't immediately known if they would be charged by Montgomery police.
Associate Justice Douglas Johnston issued a statement saying he had proposed moving the monument to a private area of the judicial building after six o'clock this evening. He said that would avert any fines while Moore pursues appeals that could take months. But he said fewer than five of the justices concurred, and his proposal was not approved.
The associate justices have indicated they may take action later.
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Based on your posting, I must believe you would be pro slavery and pro abortion because it was or is the law of the land.
Just to let you in on a little secret, some laws should be oppossed.
Just because it's a law doesn't make it morally correct.
On what basis do you find slave ownership morally wrong?
Can't be based on Christian doctrine, since the New Testament instructs slaves to submit to their masters (1 Peter 2:18, Ephesians 6:5-8).
Chaw! We're talking liberal activists on the court here. Tyranny is their middle name. It's their opiate!
That's why it's so important to get conservatives on the benches. It's the only way the Constitution will survive. That's why the Lucifer left is fighting so hard to stop Constitutionalists from getting any where near the bench. It would destroy their Social revolution they've worked so hard to achieve.
Yes. And the way to oppose them is to CHANGE THEM, not defy a court order as Moore is doing.
I wonder how Moore would feel if someone in Alabama defied one of his decisions?
Oddly enough, that's what people said the last time there was a constitutional in Montgomery, Alabama.
By the way, for those who think this is a liberal conspiracy, sorry to let the air out of that balloon, byt Roy Moore screwed up his own case by ignoring good legal advice of the AG Bill Pryor, by refusing to allow Jay Sekulow to take on the case FREE OF CHARGE! (one of the finest constituional attorneys on religious liberty cases), and by hiring incompetent counsel. Whatever your view may be on display of the 10 commandments, and I'm for it, Moore was his own worst enemy.
As I predicted here last week, the 7 other REPUBLICAN Supreme Court Judges will overrule him and order the removal of the monument tomorrow, which they are entitled to do under the Court's administrative rules. Moore will be suspended when the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission finds that there is reasonable cause for the charges filed against him last week. And, finally, he will be tried by the Court of the Judiciary, which will vote to remove him from the bench. All of this could have been avoided if he had not insisted on screwing the case up and if he had just followed the excellent legal advise of good conservative lawyers. 10 Commandment cases can be one, but you have to thread the needle. Moore opted for the bull in the China Shop approach, and all he has not is broken dishes!
Oddly enough, that's what people said the last time there was a constitutional crisis in Montgomery, Alabama.
And, incidentally, I'd be interested to know why it is that you think that it is improper for the federal judiciary to determine constitutionality. Do you object to Marbury v. Madison?
They can be just as tyrranous. The solution is to respect a transcendent basis of law. And if you can't pray to it, I doubt it transcends.
Leviticus 25:10, as incribed upon the Liberty Bell, as displayed in the U.S. Supreme Court chambers at Independence Hall, 1790.
Ten Commandments Tablets as inscribed on the Oak Door of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.
Moses holding the Ten Commandments sculpted in Italian marble inside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Moses as sculpted into the Chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
They don't need changing. The higher law must be upheld.
Jeremiah 34:10 Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should set free his male and female slaves, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and let them go.
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