Moore To Announce Monument Decision Thursday (Falwell & Keyes Too)

[Khephra]

Moore To Announce Monument Decision Thursday
Minister, Ex-Presidential Candidate To Join Protest

POSTED: 8:49 a.m. CDT August 13, 2003

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will announce Thursday whether he plans to obey a federal court order and remove the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has said he may fine the state if the 5,300-pound monument is not removed by Aug. 20. Thompson last year found that the monument is an unconstitutional recognition of religion by the state. The ruling was upheld by the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals.

Moore has argued Thompson does not have the authority to order him to remove the monument. But he has not said if he will defy Thompson's order.

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[rocktivity]

1. Remove the monument AND Moore

Enough is enough. If Moore is this incapable of separating church and state, he is incapable of being a judge any longer!

rocknation

[northzax]

2. Also: Northzax to annouce Thursday

if he will obey the Federal Court order banning him from killing his next door neighbor. in a press release, northzax was quoted as saying: "Ah, man, I don't believe the Feds have the jurisdiction to make me stop killing people, I don't recognize the authority of the Federal Courts in this matter."

[Syrinx]

3. I'm pretty sure he'll defy the court order

And I think Moore should be personally fined, not the state.

[Ediacara]

4. I agree it should be Moore and not the state

But even Governor McFreepstone will get tired of the bill and will force Moore out if he continues to fail compliance.

[Exultant Democracy]

5. Fine both the state and Moore,

then use the money to pay for getting ride of it.

[phatkatt]

6. Like I say every time this comes up ...

... he will defy the order and be hailed as a hero fighting the good fight against the godless homosexual-agenda-pushing federal government by most of the people here in Talibama. Just like George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.

They'll fine the state, which I as a taxpayer will have to help pay for in order to have something I don't believe in shoved down my throat.

This state is broke already, and the voters are about to vote down a tax increase that would help.

[Syrinx]

7. I wonder...

If he wanted to, could the governor take the money out of Moore's salary until it runs out? I'm not saying Riley would do it, I just wonder if he has the authority to do it.

[phatkatt]

9. Don't know, but If you remember the repube primary ...

... all the candidates were just trying to out-Jesus each other. Riley probably supports Moore.

[Syrinx]

11. yeah, but...

Riley has surprised me with his fairly progressive tax reform plan. Hopefully, he has some other nice surprises up his sleeve. We can hope...

[midnitemoleman]

8. We went through this same thing about 2yr's ago, here in Indiana

In my home town of Bedford, Indiana (pop at about 25,000). Judge Sara Evens Barker ordered in removed, or jail for the city officials. Now it sit's accross the street from the court house on priv. Property and no one can say a thing. Why people keep pushing the same thing over and over again, I will never know. I am a Christian, and the ten commandments should NOT be on pup. prop., unless ALL religions are also shown. I can worship God without a stone monument. What we are seeing with this case is a political move to land chrisitan votes.

[alaine]

10. I have to say this is a shift.

I was raised a fundamentalist christian and it seemed when I was young the church held itself more out of and above politics. I no longer consider myself a Christian but my family is and the political maneuvering that is going on in the neo-con faction of the republican part profanes the name of Christ and makes people like my parents, who are devout and who are GOOD people, look terrible. I am so mad that folks like these are using the belief system of my parents for political ends.

[piece sine]

12. Where are the Christians...or the Jews for that matter?

Isn't there a single religious denomination who can assess this grueling civics contratemps and volunteer to move the Ten Commandments monument onto their own private property, be it a church or synogogue.

They would contribute directly to (local)peace with from a Solomon-like solution to subdue a vexing church-state issue with further acrimony. The monument's backers would still be able to view it in public and those who don't want religious icons on government ground would happily concede they have no cause for concern for a private venue.