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The Ten Commandments Judge & the Republican Party

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Roy Moore of 10 Commandments fame is back and running for governor of Alabama. Many of his followers hope he'll run for president and are sure God will put him in the White House.

He's the poster boy - Tom Cruise combined with Johnny Depp - of the deepest sort of American conservative Christianity. He's everything a skeptical person should fear in a politician and the warm and fuzzy dream of the ignorant.

You don't have to believe that Moore's Ten Commandments drama was prophetic, as some of his supporters do, or see the hand of God in the country's recent politics, to believe that the national culture is moving in Roy Moore's direction. Moore will tell you that before the filibuster showdown, before the Terri Schiavo controversy, before Tom DeLay insinuated violent retaliation against the federal judges who ended it, before the Supreme Court ruled that the Ten Commandments have no place in a courtroom, even before a swell of evangelical Christians carried George W. Bush to a second term, he was fighting the battle to acknowledge God. He has never stopped talking about it, never stopped arguing his case, and over the past three years he has built a national following, becoming a political phenomenon of the sort Alabamians haven't seen since the days of George Wallace.

The Atlantic: Roy and His Rock

Richard Evans Lee
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To me, what happened to Moore in court was less about religion than about states' rights. There is no provision in the constitution or law for separation of church and state. It is all a fabrication of activist judges and ignores 150 years of prior practice by the federal government. The first amendment was written and ratified as a restraint on the federal government, it was never meant to give license to the federal government to rule over states and individuals. Given all of that, the tenth amendment applies which states that powers not given to the federal government are given to the states and the people. The federal government does not possess the power to force a state elected official to remove a monument of any sort from state property. Judge Moore had the right and duty to oppose an illegitimate ruling.

Posted by: Daveishere | October 9, 2005 11:29 PM

Personally, I love to see evidence of the time when the U.S. was a theocracy. Have any, Dave? I didn't think so. Got milk? Richard, what Moore is really relying on is the ignorance of so much of the population of Alabama. Sometimes, I, who am not given to conspiracy theories, think the South keeps its people ill-educated so that the Moores, Lotts, Helms, Wallaces, Thurmonds, etc., can have their way.

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