Alabama Rally for Roy Moore--American Family Association's article

[Maddy McCall]

Speaking to thousands of supporters from across the country on Saturday morning, Moore said the monument will stay in place -- and that if Thompson's ruling is allowed to stand, the nation will face the consequences.

"If we sit quietly by while this inalienable right is taken, even the rocks and the trees and the stones that you see would cry out for judgment," Moore said to cheers from the crowd.

"If I should fail to do my duty in this case for fear of giving offense, I would consider myself guilty of treason toward my country and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."

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"We're in very grave danger of losing that acknowledgement in this country," he said. "For the past 40 years, the courts have been taking away the knowledge of God by saying that we could acknowledge God as long as we really don't mean it -- which puts us in the position of violating the third commandment, 'Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'"

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comments: This is from the AFA website. As most of you know, the AFA is one of the most conservative fundie groups in the US, if not the most conservative. They are hoping that the Alabama Governor will interdict himself between the judicial order to remove the monument and Moore, much as Ross Barnett did in the 1960s, by placing himself between the state of Mississippi and the justice department's orders to intergrate the University of Mississippi. The AFA masterminded the boycott of Disney on the basis that it promoted the "homosexual agenda," as well as other such boycotts.

Anyway, this is a report from the "rally" for Judge Moore. Link is here: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/162003a.asp

Be forewarned: This website is extremely conservative...EXTREMELY.

[arcane1]

1. "the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."

in that case, Roy, you need to resign and become a minister

[Jacobin]

3. Good point.

This gasbag should be a televangelist and get out of the judge business.

[Maddy McCall]

4. No doubt that he is feeding off this controversy...

and if he had ever decided a case in which I was party, I would appeal on the basis of the present situation, and on the basis of his comments related to it.

No way can he be an impartial judge. He is a loon, no doubt.

[Dookus]

2. Dont' Dems control the Alabama Legislature?

Time to impeach this nutcase. He's in violation of the law and his oath of office.

[delete_bush]

5. Not EXTREMELY conservative…

<Be forewarned: This website is extremely conservative...EXTREMELY>

Just came back from the AFA website. Articles on liberals attacking poor defenseless conservatives, xtians love of Israel, diversity in education (not for it), abortion, Hollywood “sacrificing itself on the altar of homosexuality”, praying for congress, etc. ad nauseum.

At some point in the recent past this would have seemed extremely conservative to me. Now this is mainstream republican.

I like the Sitting Bull quote, you might enjoy the following (although copied from a “thumper” website)

In almost every religious system throughout history, there exists some kind of hell. There are exceptions though, as one 17th century missionary to some Canadian Native Americans found out.

In that particularly barren region, where the tribe always struggled for enough winter firewood, the natives only shook their heads at the missionary's description of an eternal hell. "Nobody has that much firewood," they reasoned.

The Native Americans are one of the few people groups who managed to develop their religion without a hell, and missionaries from a people who dishonored all their treaties had great difficulty in making heaven attractive to them as well.

"Too many white bad-hearts there," they scoffed. "Besides," said one squaw to her husband, "you see how badly they hunt. How will they provide for you in your old age in their heaven?"

[LEFTofLEFT]

6. someone needs to take a big hammer to monument

the court battle would be monumental


We must fight the rightwing monsters like the future is at sstake

IT IS !!!

They will destroy us all if we do not stop them.

[Corgigal]

7. Mr Roy Moore

must have done a bunch of evil shit when he was young to be this concerned about his salvation. I say we DU'ers chip in for a good Private Investigator.

[alaine]

8. These people scare me.

Here is the "Citizen's Rights Act" I posted last week that they are trying to get sponsorship for and which came about as a result of this controversy over the supreme courst ruling. They are trying to get Congress to remove rulings on the pledge of allegiance, the national motto, and the ten commandements from the jurisdiction of federal judges and hand it over to the states. What glowing respect for the constitution as it is written.

http://www.afa.net/petitions/citizensrights.html

Apparently there is a rider attached to a bill in the house that is along these same lines that the senate will have to vote down. I wish I had more specifics on that but I can't find my notes on it.