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  • 'So Help Me God' The "Ten Commandments Judge" battles to become Alabama's governor.

    05/27/2006 7:58:41 AM PDT · by ECM · 48 replies · 791+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 27, 2006 | KYLE WINGFIELD
    MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Most politicians would kill for--or spend millions of dollars to acquire--the name recognition Roy Moore has in Alabama. Not necessarily the kind of name recognition, mind you. Just the level. That's because here, and across the country, he's known not just as Roy Moore, but as "Roy Moore, Ten Commandments Judge"--the Southern Baptist-cum-chief justice of Alabama who defied a federal court order to remove his 2 1/2-ton monument to the Commandments from the state courthouse, and lost his job as a result. It's a moniker that wins him automatic support in some quarters, and deafens ears before he even...