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Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29776
Posted: November 25, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Since that fateful day Dwight Eisenhower named Earl Warren chief justice, the U.S. Supreme Court has been engineering a social revolution.

Seizing legislative power, the court legalized pornography, declared abortion a constitutional right, abolished the death penalty for a generation and prohibited a once-Christian people from paying public homage to their God. Yet, Americans have not rebelled.

Why not? Because they were raised to believe the court was the final judge of what the Constitution says, and to defy it is to dishonor the Founding Fathers. Andy Jackson would have hanged judges like Warren, Brennan, Blackmun and Douglas as high as Haman.

Missing in our 50-year struggle against judicial dictatorship has been a Sam Adams, with the courage and kidney to go down to the docks and toss His Majesty's tea into the harbor. But in the new chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, we may have found such a man.

Roy Moore, a Vietnam vet, was lately a judge in Etowah County. Presented a carving of the Ten Commandments, Moore proudly hung the plaque in his courtroom, where it attracted the horrified notice of the ACLU, which found a federal judge to order Moore to take it down.

If the feds want this plaque down, said Moore, tell them to send U.S. marshals to tear it down. Moore's defiance was electrifying. And Gov. Fob James backed Moore up, saying that if the feds sent in marshals, he, his state troopers and the Alabama National Guard would meet them on the courthouse steps.

The prospect of Janet Reno leading units of the 82nd Airborne to Etowah County to rip the Ten Commandments off a courtroom wall was exhilarating. But a higher court averted a showdown by ruling the plaque could stay.

Moore was a hero across Alabama, and decided to run for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Moore won. And the night before he took the oath, he had moved into the rotunda of the judicial building in Montgomery a 5,300-pound block of granite on which was carved the Ten Commandments Moses brought down from Mount Sinai.

Moore's coup stunned Morris Dees, the McGovernite fund-raiser who runs a racket called the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dees went to court to demand that the commandments be purged. "This monument was snuck in during the middle of the night, and they can sneak it out just as easily," he ranted, "It's a gross violation of the rights of the citizens of Alabama." Since the citizens of Alabama elected Moore and nobody elected Dees, it would seem Dees speaks only for the usual minority of malcontents.

Unfortunately for Dees, a copy of a confidential letter he sent to a fellow attorney in the case was mailed to the counsel for Moore. In it, Dees revealed himself as a Christian-basher. "You might remember that from the start," he wrote his colleague, "I was laying our trial theme – i.e., how this was the act of a lone religious nut in partnership with a fanatical church."

The "nut" is Justice Moore. The "fanatical church" is Coral Ridge Ministries of TV evangelist Dr. James Kennedy. But Dees did find a like-minded U.S. judge, Myron Thompson, who has ordered Judge Moore to remove the commandments within 30 days. Wrote Thompson, "The court is impressed that the monument and its immediate surroundings are, in essence, a consecrated place, a religious sanctuary, within the walls of the courthouse."

Moore has appealed Thompson's ruling, and the granite block with the carving of the commandments remains in the rotunda as the Dec. 17 deadline for its removal approaches. The stage is set for a constitutional confrontation.

If Moore refuses to remove the monument, and both sides go up to the Supreme Court, the issue will come down to this: Either the Supreme Court will back Moore and the Ten Commandments will remain in the rotunda – or the court will give a final order to remove the Ten Commandments.

If the judge refuses, U.S. marshals may be ordered to go in and remove the monument. Would Bush instruct U.S. marshals to carry out such an order? Would Alabama Gov. Bob Riley follow Fob James and send the Alabama National Guard to impede the marshals? Would Bush federalize the Alabama Guard or send in U.S. troops to take down the Ten Commandments from the rotunda in Montgomery, with thousands of Christians roaring their enraged opposition?

This one is going down to the wire. And for once, Christians and traditionalists have a champion willing to put himself on the line. The next civil-rights revolution in America may be Christians standing up to an anti-Christian bigotry that has captured the third branch of the American government.

Posted by Lost (Member # 343) on :

keep praying for this soldier. it's about time someone stood up and took a stand.

lost

Posted by InnerChild (Member # 676) on :

I try to see this from both sides. On the one side, America was created with the idea that all religions should be free to follow their beliefs as long as that does not impinge on other's beliefs. This is what made the United States on of the most diverse and strong countries in the world. Though our founding fathers were certainly christian, they had decided that the government would be seperate from religion to keep America the land of the free.

The real question here is, Do placing the 10 commandments in the court impinge on other's beliefs or prostetise other religions into believing christianity? No

The judge is using the defence that our moral laws are based on the 10 commandments, which they certainly are. He is merely paying homage to the morals that have always defined the laws which govern us. I can not see any logical reason that they should be taken down. To deny the 10 commandments is to deny everything our law is based upon. I hope that the judge has the strength to keep standing and the supreme court has the foresight to see the importance of this monument.

-- the child
Darren

Posted by njclary (Member # 4) on :

Good for you my boy!!! glad to see you here!

God Bless

Guess who

Posted by InnerChild (Member # 676) on :

hey daddy! [Big Clap]

Posted by Paula (Member # 551) on :

As Jerry Falwell states in his article below, the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in our land, bears reverence for the Ten Commandments as they have a depictions of the tablets in marble behind the justices at the High Court. So hopefully, if and when the case reaches the High Court, they will bear that in mind and their decision will be merciful to the Commandments!

In addition, friezes at the pinnacle of the U.S. Supreme Court building maintain the biblical figures of Moses (holding tablets representing the Ten Commandments) and Solomon. Plus, oak doors separating the courtroom from the central hallway of the Supreme Court building maintain a representation of tablets bearing the Roman numerals one through ten; although the Commandments are not written out. It is readily apparent that the U.S. Supreme Court bears obvious reverence for the Ten Commandments' impact on American law and justice.

http://news.christiansunite.com/religion/religion02731.shtml

Posted by njclary (Member # 4) on :

Sad to say, but Brother Falwell is usually the quickest to capitulate under pressure for his comments. But he is right on this, but that does'nt stop the liberal left.

On the American Family Radio today there was a half hour program on the ACLU and the socialistic leanings, of this group.

The Christian foundation is under attack by a very powerful minority, who has the liberal media backing them and now who will back the Christian foundation.

Brother jerry has lost credibility
The TV preachers have never really had their credibility
Brother Kennedy is busy selling books

SO who will Speak for us???

God Bless

Joel

Posted by InnerChild (Member # 676) on :

Joel, you say "socalistic" leanings yet really they are not. I see a lot of people lately comparing liberals to socialists which is a very unfortunte comparison because they are not even close.

For one, liberals are a side of government where socialism is a type of economy. They are apples and oranges as the case may be

In fact there are very conservitive socialists, but because there are certain policy initives that liberals and socialists share (ie welfare) they are unfairly compared. To be honest with you, I think Jesus would prefer a socialist economy to a capitalist economy. Less greed, less competition which drives crime and total equality of the people, regardless of race or sex.

Posted by njclary (Member # 4) on :

you wanna have dinner Thursday???or go hungry [Wink]

Posted by InnerChild (Member # 676) on :

is that a threat old man?!?! [mad2]

hehe I kid I kid, I love you daddy!!!