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Relena Peace
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I bet God is very pleased with that Judge for standing up for the Ten Commandments. He's probably looking down at him and smiling. Standing up for God's word makes him happy. Doing it even though it's a danger to you pleases him even more. So what that it's againts the law and the government's againts it!??!?! Shadrack, Meshack, and Abendigo (sp) went againts the law and didn't bow down and pray to the King (or however it went). They knew that their lives were at stake and they were willing to die for what they knew was right! I give props to the Judge for doing what he did. ![[thumbsup2]](graemlins/thumbsup2.gif) ![[clap2]](graemlins/clap2.gif) ![[youpi]](graemlins/youpi.gif) ![[wiggle7]](graemlins/wiggle7.gif) ![[happyhappy]](graemlins/happyhappy.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Wink]](wink.gif) ![[Cross]](graemlins/cross.gif)
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~Relena Peace
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phaze
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This is Christian nation, and all who oppose us should be imprisoned.
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Kindgo
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LAW OF THE LAND
10 Commandments judge defies court order
Alabama chief justice won't remove granite monument from state building
Posted: July 3, 2003
3:30 p.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore vowed yesterday to keep a 2˝ ton granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the judiciary building in Montgomery, in defiance of a federal appeals court order to have the testimonial removed.
"We must defend our rights and preserve our constitution," Moore told reporters. "For the federal courts to adopt the agenda of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and to remove the knowledge of God and morality from our lives is wrong."
Moore, who penned a treatise regarding his battle to retain the monument in this month's Whistleblower magazine, WND's monthly print publication, says he's not sure if he'll ask the federal courts to rehear his case or appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, CNN reported.
On Tuesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled unanimously that the monument must be removed from the judiciary building because it represented a government promotion of a particular religion, in violation of the First Amendment.
In its decision, the panel compared Moore to Southern officials and governors of the past who refused to integrate schools after being ordered to do so by federal courts.
The court also predicted Moore would lose if he appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. "If necessary, the court order will be enforced. The rule of law will prevail," the judges wrote.
Moore insisted he is upholding the rule of law. "The rule of law must prevail in this case," he told reporters.
The chief justice, who has become known as the "Ten Commandments judge," was sued by the ACLU after placing the monument in the courthouse in the middle of the night in July 2001.
The four-foot tall monument features the Commandments inscribed on two tablets along with historical quotations.
Philip Drake, Moore's attorney, said federal courts, along with the three lawyers who sued, have misconstrued the true intent and real meaning of the Constitution, CNN said.
Drake maintains that the First Amendment says only that Congress shall make no law "respecting the establishment of religion."
"This monument is not a law respecting the establishment of religion," Drake said.
The federal appeals court saw it differently.
"If we adopted his position, the chief justice would be free to adorn the walls of the Alabama Supreme Court's courtroom with sectarian religious murals and have decidedly religious quotations painted above the bench," the judges wrote in their 50-page ruling. "Every government building could be topped with a cross, or a menorah, or a statue of Buddha, depending upon the views of the officials with authority over the premises."
The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center, which filed a brief on behalf of Moore, noted the appeals ruling came one week after another federal appellate court, the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, upheld display of the Ten Commandments on a wall outside a courthouse.
"Because there appears to be a conflict between the decisions of these appellate courts, we hope the United States Supreme Court will review these cases and reaffirm government's ability to acknowledge in public our religious heritage, especially the moral foundation of our law," said Edward L. White III, associate counsel for the legal group.
Moore first drew national attention after posting a wooden, hand-carved plaque of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom while a state court judge in Gadsden, Ala. The Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and the state of Alabama unsuccessfully sued Moore in 1995 over his actions.
He then mounted and won by a landslide margin an election to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000, which he viewed as a mandate from the people to "restore the moral foundation of law."
Editor's note: Chief Justice Roy Moore is one of the key writers in the July issue of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine. Titled "THE CONSTITUTION: America's ultimate battleground," this special issue explores whether the Constitution is still America's "supreme law of the land." In his article, "Putting God back in the public square," Justice Moore explains to Whistleblower's readers what the 1st Amendment is really all about.
Subscribe to Whistleblower, starting with "THE CONSTITUTION: America's ultimate battleground."
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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phaze
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So the laws of man are more important than the laws of God?
Just another example of the anti-God minority using the constitution to bully the pro-God majority. And here we sit like a bunch of (I don't know whats) and just let them continue to do it.
I think we should be ashamed.
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I’m not trying to pick a fight just trying to get people to think!
Why should we worry about the “State Judicial Building” removing the “Ten Commandments”,
Most of the Church did away with them along time ago?
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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Miguel
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How little truth can pierce down the hearts of men!
Luke 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
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Our Eschatology may vary even our Ecclesiology may be disputed among us but our Soteriology most assume a singularity and exclusivity which in biblical term is known as Quote; "The Narrow Way" and Quote!
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Kindgo
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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/6212097.htm
Court Rules Against Commandments Monument
BOB JOHNSON
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is not above "the rule of law" and must remove a Ten Commandments monument the size of a washing machine from the lobby of the state judicial building.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously affirmed an order from U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson that the monument violates the Constitution's prohibition on government promotion of religion. Thompson had ordered the monument removed from the building, but delayed the order while Moore appealed.
A spokesman for Moore said the chief justice would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. It was unclear whether the monument would stay in place during further appeals.
The appeals court panel cited U.S. Supreme Court rulings saying that government may not promote or affiliate itself with any religious doctrine or organization.
"If we adopted his position, the chief justice would be free to adorn the walls of the Alabama Supreme Court's courtroom with sectarian religious murals and have decidedly religious quotations painted above the bench," the panel wrote.
"Every government building could be topped with a cross, or a menorah, or a statue of Buddha, depending upon the views of the officials with authority over the premises."
Moore put the monument in the building in the middle of the night on July 31, 2001. The 5,300-pound monument features tablets bearing the Ten Commandments and historical quotations about the place of God in law.
Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Alabama attorneys who said they had to walk past the monument every time they entered the court building and that it infringed on their First Amendment rights.
Richard Cohen, an attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center, said the ruling means that "no state official can use his position to push his personal religious views on the public."
Christian Coalition of Alabama President John Giles said he was shocked by the ruling and would like to see the U.S. Supreme Court settle the issue once and for all. He said there had been a series of conflicting lower court rulings concerning Ten Commandments displays on public property.
Moore's spokesman, Tom Parker, said Moore believes the First Amendment to the Constitution is meant to "protect the freedom to worship God."
"What the chief justice has done is certainly constitutional historically," Parker said.
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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