Monday, October 14, 2002

U.S. judge to decide commandments issue

The actual issue at hand is if the ridiculous Ten Commandments monument put up in the Alabama Supreme Court building by Chief Justice Roy "Thou Shalt Not Commit False Witness" Moore is meant to promote religion. Moore says it isn't and that the Ten Commandments were a basis for the Constitution. Sigh. I've done this before, but one more time:

I am the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


Moore's own actions -- tirelessly self-promoting by putting up the Commandments in his state courtroom as a local judge, immediately putting them up at the Supreme Court when he got the chance -- put the lie to his claim that he has no religious basis for his actions. Moore also takes exception to being labeled a "religious nut" by Morris Dees, but he clearly is one.

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