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Moore was sworn in last Friday as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a post he held from 2001 until 2003, when he was removed from his position for defying a court order and ignoring the Constitution.
In 2001, Moore thought it would be a good idea to haul a 2.5-ton granite monument depicting a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments into the foyer of the Alabama Judicial Building and announce that it was his intent to acknowledge God. Americans United and our allies in Alabama sued, charging Moore with violating the constitutional separation of church and state. The federal courts ruled in our favor, but Moore ignored the order to remove the monument. That worked out about as well as youd expect. The monument was removed from the foyer, and in 2003, Moore was removed from the state supreme court.
After failed runs for governor in 2006 and 2010, Moore somehow managed to get reelected to the Alabama Supreme Court last year. When he took his oath of office on Jan. 11, he showed he had learned little from past experience.
Weve got to remember most of what we do in court comes from some scriptures or is backed by scriptures, Moore said, according to the Associated Press. (Moore took his oath not on one Bible, but a stack of them.)
That remark was bad enough, but Moore didnt stop there. In fact, things got worse as Moore continued to rant on the importance of the Bible as the basis for laws in the United States.
http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2013/01/decalogue-deja-vu-alabama-commandments-judge-says-legal-system-comes-rrom-bible/
Hey, religious moderates, I'm talking to you.... THIS is our common ground. THIS is our common fight. You want to work together to rid ourselves of extremists and bigots? Then step up.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)My favorite commandment. (Deut 14:21)
I wonder if judge Moore will impose the death penalty for seething. Certainly such a thing must be abhorrent in the eyes of god.
But the slaughter of the Amelikite men, women, and children (and animals), except those women who had not known a man who were to taken as sex objects (1 Sam 15). (How did they know which was which?) This was ordered by god.
Blood thirsty asshole, wasn't he?
But seething is right out!!!
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)like Roy
But I don't know how to keep em from doin that
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)than people realize. Either way, religious moderates need to step up or take the blame.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)IOW, a significant majority of actual voters put this yahoo back on the bench. Both religious extremists AND moderates. And those that OCULD have voted, but didn't, own this as well. Thats where the blame lies for this travesty.
Spin it however you feel you need to, nothing will change the fact that a significant majority of actual voters voted for this asshole.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)regarding US voters has been the large number of people who don't vote. In a state election decided by a 52-48 margin, actual turnout may play a substantial role. The 2012 Alabama election had a rather higher than normal turnout, but a quarter of voters still didn't vote, which suggests a large number of them simply didn't care -- a phenomenon which is not limited to Alabama, of course
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)They too, share the blame. Apathy is just as, if not more, dangerous than ignorance.
I apologize for jumping on you like that. I am used to having you try to spin my posts and comments away from the point being made. You have valid points and I overlooked them.