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Can a Christian be a liberal? Short answer: no. There is no way a Christian can buy into neo-liberal ideology and be faithful to the bigger-than-Dallas teachings of the scripture and expect to continue enjoying his hard-won religious liberties.

Fundraising for commandments fight steps up From Georgia News Network WINDER - The Winder-based group Ten Commandments Georgia, Inc. is stepping up its fundraising efforts this week. Officials with the group have said they will reimburse Barrow County taxpayers for the $81,000 they'll spend on the county's legal battle to keep a copy of the Ten Commandments in its courthouse. The Reverend Jody Hice heads the Ten Commandments group. "This is the county defending itself. It's not the county getting involved in supporting a religious issue. The county has been sued over this thing and by spending tax dollars they're...

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, unless of course the other God in question happens to be Teresa, who would smite me down and make me sleep on the couch till next August if she thought I for a second implied that her bank account was not the Supreme Diety Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images, unless your name is MoveOn.org, in which case you can go graven to your hearts content and malign the character of the infidel George W. Do not take the liberals name in vain, particularly in the realm of suggesting...

Henry to Display Ten Commandments Move Could Prompt Legal Fight POSTED: 6:25 am EDT July 7, 2004 MCDONOUGH -- Henry County commissioners have voted to display the Ten Commandments in the county courthouse after a citizen donated a 3-by-2 foot framed copy. "Let them sue. I'm not afraid of a lawsuit," Commissioner Gerry Adams said Tuesday as the commission agreed to the display requested by Ray McBerry, who said he represented League of the South. McBerry suggested that his donated copy of the Ten Commandments, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, be placed in the...

P.O. Box 2153 Woodstock, Georgia 30188 Constitution Party of Georgia 2004 State Convention"The Second American Revolution: For God, Family, and Country" Date:  Saturday, June 19, 2004 Time:  9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Location:  ACS, Inc., 6400 Peake Road Macon, Georgia Keynote PresentationMichael Anthony Peroutka Constitution Party candidate for President and founder of Institute on the Constitution will introduceRoy S. Moore Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice"Restoring the Moral Foundation of Law" Confirmed SpeakersBuddy Hanson, Christian Policy Council "The Lesser of Two Evils or the Greater of One Good"Pastor Dan Thrower, Enon Grove Community Church "The Law of God: Deterrent to...

A justice on Alabama's Supreme Court who voted to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building was soundly defeated in the Republican primary. Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore backed Tom Parker, his former aide who campaigned against Supreme Court justice Jean Brown's vote to remove Moore's monument. Although three other candidates backed by Moore lost to incumbents in Tuesday's statewide Republican primary, Parker managed to defeat the incumbent Judge Brown. Parker received 51 percent of the votes to the Brown's 49 percent in the primary. Now he will go on to face Democrat Robert Smith, a...

God and Judges: Justice in the Balance By David Brody CBN.com – WASHINGTON - There's a new bill in both the House and the Senate that would prevent judges from ruling on cases that involve the acknowledgement of God. In other words, judges would no longer be able to get involved in issues like the Ten Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance or school prayer. But the bill is running into some stumbling blocks. It seems nowadays it is one case after another, judges ruling against the acknowledgment of God in the public square. The Ten Commandments in Alabama - gone,...

Commissioners find support for keeping Commandments By Alan Choate The Daily Inter Lake Though not universally popular, the county commissioners' stance against removing a Ten Commandments monument at the Flathead County Courthouse has drawn praise and promises of support from county residents and at least one gubernatorial candidate. "I've gotten, man alive, dozens of calls," said Commissioner Gary Hall, who has been the most vocal on the issue. "Just support calls, thankful that we're standing up, and not rolling over. "I've never gotten this many positive responses on anything I've done" as an elected official. Americans United for Separation of...

The other day, Sen. Zell Miller, the Right's favorite Democrat, gave a compelling speech in which he lamented the "deficit of decency" in America and pondered ways by which we might regain our moral bearings. During the speech he noted the many attacks on morality by the "Culture of Far Left America" and an out-of-control federal judiciary, remarking that it's happening in a number of areas "whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square" or "eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge of...

[T]he Guardian (a British newspaper) reported an attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair by the Church of England. The Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, said that in participating in the “attack” on Iraq, Blair had acted like a “white vigilante.” Blair has, according to the church official, joined with the group of “religious conservatives” surrounding the U.S. President, George Bush, and is espousing a very strange distortion of Christianity – particularly since, through Iraq’s reconstruction, many would gain financially. Let’s look at a couple of those ideas a little more closely. First, what is the Church of England? Well, once...

<p>NASH COUNTY, N.C. -- The latest fight over the display of the Ten Commandments found its way into a Nash County murder trial.</p> <p>Jeremy Hayes said after three long years, he is relieved to see Andre Edwards, who is accused of killing Hayes' wife, Ginger Hayes, and leaving his then-11-month-old son for dead, going to trial. However, before Edwards walked into the courtroom, his attorneys fought to make changes to the courtroom walls.</p>

Group Calls For Removal Of 10 Commandments From Public Park Local Churches, Groups Offer Home For Monument POSTED: 6:37 PM EST February 2, 2004 UPDATED: 11:59 PM EST February 2, 2004 HANOVER, Pa. -- It has been 50 years since a Ten Commandments monument was placed in Wirt Park in Hanover, York County. Do you think it is all right for a religious monument to be displayed in a public park? Do you think it is all right for a religious monument to be displayed in a public park? Yes No Only if other religions are equally represented Now, Hanover...

Uttering the standard liberal cliché a few years ago, Richard Reeves described "representatives of the new South" as "Republicans of old Puritan definition, righteous folk afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun." (I'll skip the context of Reeves' insight, except to note that apparently aging liberals view sodomy with the chubby intern in the back office as "having fun.") Like all beliefs universally held by liberals, Reeves's aphorism is the precise opposite of the truth. It's the blue states that are constantly sending lawyers to the red states to bother everyone. Americans in the red states look at a place...

Dec 15, 8:20 PM (ET) By BOB JOHNSON MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Seven retired judges, including a former governor, were selected randomly in a lottery Monday to hear Roy Moore's appeal of his ouster as chief justice, the latest unprecedented twist in his Ten Commandments case. The drawing came just hours after all eight Supreme Court justices disqualified themselves from hearing the appeal because of their earlier involvement in the monument case. Moore was ousted on Nov. 13 by a judicial ethics panel for refusing to obey a federal judge's order to remove his 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument from the...

A federal judge sent a message Thursday to anyone who tries to intimidate those challenging public Ten Commandments displays: Do it and you can be sent to prison. Senior U.S. District Judge William O'Kelley said his office in Gainesville received threatening phone calls after he ruled last month that Habersham County's displays were unconstitutional and must be removed. O'Kelley, a federal judge for 33 years, said he was raised by a "very Christian family." As for the language used on messages left on his office answering machine, "it wasn't very Christian, I can tell you that." O'Kelley, 73, made his...

MOBILE, Ala. (BP)--Messengers at the Alabama Baptist Convention in Mobile, Ala., Nov. 18-19 passed a resolution supporting "the recognition of the biblical antecedents of our legal system and the public display of the Ten Commandments" and calling upon "all elected officials to uphold righteousness, acknowledge the biblical foundations of government, and contend for the right of religious expression provided for the American people within the Constitution of the United States of America." The resolution also warned "there are forces at work in this nation that, if left unhindered, would execute an agenda to systematically remove references to God from the...

Friends, Please be aware that there will be rallies at all 50 states capitol buildings on Saturday, November 22 for the purpose of petitioning Congress for redress of grievances regarding the federal judiciary's role in preventing the worship or acknowledgment of God in public places. This is a significant movement in response to the actions taken against the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments. For more information about these rallies to Stop Judicial Tyranny and the groups that are sponsoring them, go to: www.restoretheconstitution.org ==> click on "Current Projects" Please check this out and consider recommending these rallies to...

There is a force above the 'Almighty, Ever-to-be-worshipped' Law, righteousness. When the law is in conflict with righteousness, I side against the "almighty, ever to be worshipped, kneeled to" Law. If I did not side with righteousness, I would be worshipping law, would I not? Law would become my god, just as government was supposed to be the god of all loyal marxists. There is no difference, whatsoever, between placing law above righteousness and being a totalitarian tyrant demanding blind, marxist loyalty. Law is made for our civilization to funtion. It is a mere tool. And in this case, that...

<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama judicial panel Thursday removed Chief Justice Roy Moore (search) and rejected his argument that he was upholding his oath when he ignored a federal court order to move a Ten Commandments monument (search) from the state judicial building.</p>

It seems to me that based on this AG Pryor should be opposing the rogue federal judge and not prosecuting Chief Justice Moore... Moore is not guilt of breaking any law but in not following a federal judges order that is not based on any law... Sunday, April 27, 1997 Religious Display Proper By Bill Pryor The display of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama courtroom of Judge Roy Moore is not an establishment of religion. In its landmark school prayer ruling of 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged, "The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion."...