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At the time that the First Amendment was written and adopted, seven states had the Church of England as their established religion, five had some other religion established. Only one had no established religion.

Congress is not allowed under the First Amendment to make any law regarding this one way or another, and without a Federal law on the matter, the Federal courts have no jurisdiction over it. This is simply judicial tyranny.

The Alabama Constitution makes it clear that it is based on Christianity.

Try this: The next time you're in DC, go to the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Read the inscriptions on the walls. They speak prominently of God. Should we have to take them down, or remove the inscriptions, since these are Federal buildings?

In the Supreme Court is a statue of Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Yet somehow it's not OK for Judge Moore?

Congress is not allowed under the First Amendment to make any law regarding this one way or another, and without a Federal law on the matter, the Federal courts have no jurisdiction over it. This is simply judicial tyranny.

After three pages of sound and fury, you seem to have been the first to post the full position of Keyes in your Post #255. I recommend others go back and read it.

Keyes is dead-on. This is an issue of Federal judges making law from the bench on a subject which Congress has been specifically prohibited from making law by the First Amendment. Therefore, no decree by a Federal judge on this subject has force of legitimate law behind it, only their own judicial precedent and interpretation via their own constuct.

This is a genuine States Rights matter under the 10th Amendment. Congress has no say in the matter. Unless it is Congress trying to set up a specific Sect as a State Religion neither do Federal judges. This is just a huge power grab by unelected Federal judges. Calling this situation "obeying the law" is no different than having a Federal judge ordering you without trial to a concentration camp and then having everyone in the enforcement chain obey the order because they are "obeying the law". There is no applicable law. It is Judicial Tyranny, pure and simple. They are trying to cloak it in the words of the First Amendment, which says precisely the opposite!

There is no Federal law saying Alabama can't post whatever they wish in their own Courthouse - only Federal Judicial fiat which goes against the very words and meaning of the Constitution. Judge Moore stands on solid Constitutional grounds. The Feds are being exposed, not just in this but in their entire long, miserable train of usurptions in this matter. This entire thing started in 1962 when they threw prayer out of public schools and they have been making law out of the same phony whole cloth ever since.