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[Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice] Moore, who argues that the acknowledgment of God ""as the sovereign source of law, liberty, and government is contained within the Declaration of Independence which is cited as the 'organic law' of our country by United States Code Annotated," has written a bill, the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004, which he has gotten Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to introduce in the US Senate as S. 2082, and Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-4th Dist., Ala.) in the House as H.R. 3799.

The Bible-thumping Judge Moore now wants Congress to undermine the federal courts

It ought to be called the "Roy Moore Gets to Flout the Constitution Act."

In essence, the bill would negate the federal court rulings that forced the removal of the Ten Commandments monument that Moore, then Alabama's chief justice, had installed in the state's Supreme Court building.

God, government and legal garbage

Richard Evans Lee
February 25, 2004 •
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Evidently "this is not a theocracy" is taken as a suggestion of act by some, rather than the wake-up call it is meant to be.

Posted by: iampunha | March 19, 2004 4:26 PM

Hey, I was reading through part of your discussion, and I am also very disturbed by evangelicals. I was raised as one, then did a total about-face in college. I turned from fundy to agnostic, conservative to liberal, religious to secular, believer to skeptic.I dabbled in all sorts of other ideas and belief systems.Instead of going to Bible College, I went to art school, then a secular liberal university for seven years. Instead of having traditional family values, I shacked up with a musician and have been cohabiting with him for eight years. Man, that pissed off my folks, but hey....it was worth it to snatch my life, self respect, autonomy, sexuality, spirit, body, soul, emotion, and mind back from those church people. Make no mistake, they are LUNATICS!! When they cite tradition or upbringing as an excuse for their ignorance and bigotry, I just want to laugh my ass off. Look at me! I did everything directly opposed to their intellectual lobotomy and forcible spiritual sodomy of a "message", and I have no regrets what so ever! All of the best things in my life came from breaking their assinine rules. Now they want to force their fundy religi-virus on to the rest of us through butchering the Constitution , stealing elections, and attributing spurious quotes to the "founding fathers"? That's going too far. If you look through history, the land actually belongs to Native Americans, and the framing of our laws and constitution was completed by Deists, not Christians. If you look at quotes by James Madison, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc., you will find that they were not fond of Christianity or the Bible. So when they say they are "taking back" the country, they mean they are stealing something that never was theirs in the first place. David Barton, director of the Wallbuilders, a so-called Christian Heritage History foundation,was caught on intellectual dishonesty a while ago. Not plaigerism, but simply making shit up to further his theo-fascist agena. He even admitted his quotes were fake. He put his own words in the framers' mouths when no actual historical evidence backed up his claims, and hoped everyone would believe him on faith like his gullible followers did. Thank goodness for true intellectuals and skeptics. I noticed that the most bold of all liars are the religious, because they are used to everyone just accepting mere assertions at face value without question. Yes, fundamentalism is a virus that infects the brain, inflaming the mind while simultaneously destroying its faculties. They don't worship a deity, but an Idol of an angry white male covered in a white sheet next to a burning cross. This whole debate of separation of church and state should be over. Governments should be secular. End of discussion. Just look when religion is mixed in: Taliban, Ayatollah, inquisition, jihad, crusades, holocausts....take your pick. I'm sick of Christians(90 percent of our population) complaining that they are oppressed because they are not allowed to force their opression on others. I'm sick of them calling any intellectual debate or criticism hate speech when they are actively on the air screaming about sex, liberals and sex, atheists and sex, abortion and sex, gender and sex, and gays and sex all day. See a rather disturbing pattern emerging here? I am sick of them claiming they are being silenced simply because someone utters an opposing view to theirs. I am sick of them claiming they are persecuted simply because they are bound by the Constitution from bullying and persecuting the rest of us. It's their right as a citizen to talk about their god in the media or at private meetings, but NOT their right to legislate their god into our private lives, public schools, or government. If any other religion started doing what they are doing, people would be rioting in the street. When they say they are persecuted because they are not allowed to act above the law while insisting the rest of us follow it, Isn't that just another way to say "our shit don't stink?" "CONGREES SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION......"

Posted by: Christi | March 23, 2004 6:44 PM

I was 'born again' in my teens but got over it. It is damned tedious to listen to Christians talk about how 'persecuted' they are as if the bulk of the bad laws on the books aren't there because of them.

Posted by: Richard | March 24, 2004 4:24 PM

I just want to say that real Christians are not the way that you play them up. If you were around real Christians, maybe your life would be different. Also, keep in mind that our life on earth is just one dot on the timeline of eternity. The Constitution Restoration Act only allows people to acknowledge God, it does not force a specific religion on people. This is a free country. People believe what they want. The only reason real Christians share their faith is becaue they have something that the world doesn't. We have a beautiful relationship with someone who loved us so much that He would take our punishment so that we could be presented perfect when we die. And let me be the first to admit that I'm NOT perfect. But because our God took away our sins, I am allowed to be with God. Thats the reason we need this. All Christians want to do is be able to acknowledge God in public. To take out God in our country is a horrible thing to do... we have been pushing him out for years, God loves us so much, but we will be punished for our wrongs. God will judge our actions. As for the people who were once Christians, just know that God loves you no matter what happens, but He dearly wants you back. You will have to face the consequences of your actions some day. Thats the simple truth. He loves you, even if you have lived a cruddy life like I have, He still loves you. Thanks for reading.

Posted by: Holly | April 12, 2004 6:45 PM

It seems that an alarming number of people among the general public are truly missing the point. The primary objective of the Constitution was and is to provide the basic foundation of the Law of the United States. The first ten Amendments (the Bill of Rights) had to be added to the Constitution before all of the colonies would consider ratifying it. And so, to be technically correct, the Constitution that was accepted by the original thirteen states was the amended version that included the Bill of Rights. Therefore, the Bill of Rights is an integral part of our Constitution. It was *that* amended Constitution that our newly-found nation demanded and agreed upon. The Bill of Rights was never intented to be changed. It was meant to be authoritative. If we want to refer to the Constitution as the "Law of the Land," then some aspects of it must be unalterable, or else how the hell can it be the authoritative source of American law? Look at it another way: if the most fundamental sections of the Constitution can be changed by legislation, then nothing is preventing Congress from rewording the entire Consitution or simply getting rid of it altogether. We have to agree that the Constitution cannot be haphazardly modified and tinkered with or dispensed with; the whole concept of a constitution is to record an agreement reached between persons who intend to form a government that details aspects of such government. The act of writing one implies that the framers agreed to keep their accord. You don't like the Constitution (though I can't understand how freedom would scare someone), go somewhere else. But no one has the right to bend the Constitution to their own will and expect that it still holds its previous authority. These tactics border on oligarchy. Let's all remember, however, that America was supposed to be a democracy, NOT AN OLIGARCHY OR THEOCRACY. It seems to me the Great Experiment in Democracy that began over 200 years ago has sadly failed. This is not to say I do not believe in democracy, because I do. I simply believe we fucked it up the first time around. I'll say it. Within the next 50 years, if not less, insurgence will mount in this country and a Revolution will break out, and we'll try democracy one more time...

Posted by: Michael | April 15, 2004 6:23 PM

There's more going on here than most people realize. Check out www.yuricareport.com to see the extent the far right's agenda has worked it's way into our government. I work with a lot of Christians, and many of them don't know about this. One other thing that seems to be overlooked here is that the 'separation of church and state' is not designed to keep government out of religion, but to keep religion out of government. Look at it this way, and the whole 'persecution' argument becomes invalid. Thanks for providing the forum.

Posted by: Jim | November 29, 2004 1:28 PM

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My thanks,
Richard

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