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Ten Commandments Judge: 'If I Go to Jail, I Go to Jail'Rally in Support of Judge Roy Moore Slated for August 16thBy Bill Fancher and Jody BrownAugust 8, 2003 (AgapePress) - The battle over the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Supreme Court building is heating up following a federal judge's order to remove the tribute to the Decalogue by August 20. Christians are being asked to take a stand a few days before that deadline in support of the public display of the Commandments.Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he will announce next week how he will respond...

Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has refused to bow down to the leftist radical extremist judicial activist orders to remove the 10-COMMANDMENTS from the Court of the State of Alabama. We must raise the money for this case to move forwardPhone (205) 833-0800 Toll Free 1-866-317-0800 info@morallaw.org Dear Fellow Americans, We Need Your Help! While you have been working - rearing your family, paying your mortgage and taxes - the enemies of America have been hard at work too. They want to redefine freedom; your way of life and take from us the very source of...

The Ten Commandment exterminators are out in full force. All around America, public displays of the Ten Commandments are the object of lawsuits, ACLU threats, city council battles, and civil disobedience. As Slate magazine writes, “It’s starting to be the Summer of Decalogues....(snip .....the people who are offended by the Ten Commandments are the ones who are eager to make it easier to violate them. They may not be murderers, rapists, and robbers, but they probably want greater leeway in the sentencing of thugs. They probably don’t cheat on taxes, but they didn’t mind when a president lied in court....

The Ten Commandment exterminators are out in full force. All around America, public displays of the Ten Commandments are the object of lawsuits, ACLU threats, city council battles, and civil disobedience. As Slate magazine writes, “It’s starting to be the Summer of Decalogues.” The most notable case is that of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore whose 5,300 pound Ten Commandments monument in the State Supreme Court building was ordered to be removed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last month. On July 22, Moore announced that he will appeal the decision directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile,...

PHOENIX - A 6-foot-tall granite monument of the Ten Commandments that sits across from the state Capitol could meet the same fate as some Bible verses at the Grand Canyon: They could be banished. The Arizona Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint about the marble slab that was donated to the state in the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Pamela Sutherland, the ACLU's legal director, said that if the monument is not removed, the group will file suit in federal court to have it forcibly ejected from Wesley Bolin Park. Tom Knapp, chairman of the Legislative Governmental...

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore is probably about as close as you can get to a Shas-style politician in America. He campaigned for his job as the "Ten Commandments Judge." And indeed, when he took office he erected a two-and-half ton stone rendering of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of his courthouse. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court (11th Circuit, Atlanta) found that the monument violated the Constitution's First Amendment prohibition of the establishment of religion. In April, the US Supreme Court took the same position, striking down a resolution passed by the Kentucky legislature that would have...

Today: June 10, 2003 at 2:22:41 PDT Ten Commandments Removed From Ohio School ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST UNION, Ohio (AP) - Protesters, sheriff's deputies and school officials who clashed over a judge's order to remove four giant Ten Commandments tablets from school buildings prayed together after workers loaded the last monument on a truck and drove away. All four granite tablets were removed by Monday evening. Earlier, dozens of protesters locked arms and knelt in prayer to hinder workers who had been ordered to remove the monuments from four schools in the Adams County/Ohio Valley School District about 60 miles east...

A federal appeals panel in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday sharply tested the right of Alabama's Supreme Court chief justice to keep a two-ton Ten Commandments monument in the state judicial building. One judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said if the panel accepted an argument made by Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, courthouses around the state could be decorated with murals depicting the life and death of Jesus Christ and the words "What Would Jesus Do?" inscribed above the benches. "Its implications are staggering," Judge Edward E. Carnes said of Moore's argument. Moore's lawyer, Herbert W....

The Rev. Daniel King believes the two tablets depicted on Richmond County's Superior Court seal clearly portray the Ten Commandments. The 53-year-old Unitarian minister in Augusta also thinks the seal carries an unmistakable message: non-Christians are second-class citizens in the eyes of that court. "When I first saw the seal a few years ago, I was really surprised the Ten Commandments were on it," said King, who once practiced law. "I thought, 'Gee, haven't they gotten beyond this?'" Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and joined by an Augusta attorney and a retired schoolteacher, King filed suit in 2000...

The Grandest Mitzvah of All Faces Total Blackout (Kahana')It seems as if every year when Parshat Teruma rolls around, rabbis all over the world become hard-pressed for their sermons. Sermons, after all, must be "relevant for our times". And what could be less relevant for our times than the laws of the Temple, sacrifices, and ritual purity? One third of all the mitzvot of the Torah are dependent upon the building of the Temple, yet this mitzvah is absolutely ignored by so many religious Jews. Yes, there is such a mitzvah, and this Shabbat we read it: "and they small...

Leave Our Holidays Alone Sandra Hartle 12/12/2002 Every year at this time the atheist, and whoever, crawl out from whatever rock they hide under most of the time with their barrage of complaints about Christmas and the icons of the Christian Religion. Well I have some news for you folks, this country was founded by Christians, and continues to be 85% Christian in it populous. That's right we are the majority. Not you. So I am going to write this article, and then I am going to make every effort I can to put an end to the minority running...

A federal judge in Austin has ruled The Ten Commandments can stay on the State Capitol grounds. Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth ruled the 5-foot stone slab with the Biblical passage next to the Capitol building does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. He said no reasonable person would consider the display a religious endorsement. Thomas Van Orden -- a homeless man in Austin -- had sued for its removal, calling it an endorsement of Judeo-Christian beliefs by the state government. The monument was donated to the state in 1961 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles for the...

<p>LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Ten Commandments lawn signs are flying off the shelves in a show of support for keeping a Ten Commandments monument in a city park, a religious leader said.</p> <p>David Twite, executive director of Crossfire Ministries, a non-denominational youth ministry, has been handing out the signs for nearly two weeks. He said Wednesday he can't keep up with demand.</p>

"Law" and "Commandments" in the Gospel of John Robert D. Brinsmead   Although the term "the Law" and the word "commandment" are often used interchangeably in the Bible, the Gospel of John makes a distinction between them. The expression "the Law" appears fourteen times in the Gospel of John. The word "command" or "commandment" also appears about fourteen times. It has long been noted that the Gospel of John is a book of controversy. The book depicts a great confrontation between Jesus and the Law, between Christ's or the Father's commandment and the Law, between Jesus and Judaism, and between...