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Just a Hunch
Friday, August 22nd, 2003My prediction:
Chief Justice Roy Moore will retire soon, and then establish himself as a fixture on the conservative lecture circuit, garnering high-five-figures honoraria. He’ll probably write a bestseller for Regnery, get a punditry gig with Fox (unless MSNBC give him his own show first), and generally become a darling of the Paul Weyrich crowd.
If he plays his cards right, this alleged bold stand that jeopardized his judicial career will make Chief Justice Moore a rich man, and bring him far more fame and fortune than he could possibly have attained wasting his retirement years lingering on the bench in Montgomery, Alabama.
Unlike the present, however, history will be quite a bit harsher on him.
History will disregard him entirely.
People remember Earl Warren for other reasons than the movement to impeach HIM 40-50 years ago…
The judge keeps claiming that the Ten Commandments are the basis of the laws in this country. Of the ten, I can see one that is always illegal, one that is usually illegal but not always, and one that is usually legal but can be illegal in certain circumstances.
I’ll admit that I’m no expert on the history of law in this country, but that seems like a stretch to me. Any law history buffs out there care to comment?
A gaze in the crystal ball shows him at the head of a Republican splinter group much like the Dixiecrats. The name “Dixiepubs” just doesn’t have the same zing though… maybe “Jeezatarians” would be a little catchier?
couldnt disagree more. the ten commandments should be everywhere. its not a church/state issue. the ten commandments dont endorse a particular religion. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all believe in the ten commandments. The founders had them in mind when they wrote our constitution. Although much of the Christian right in the deep south are misguided, and Moore was probably one of them, theres nothing the slightest bit unconstitutional about posting the ten commandments anywhere. They should be there as a reminder. This country was founded on Judao-Christian principles. The commandments don’t endorse a religion. They’re good rules to follow. No one follows them anymore anyway. They need to be posted all over the place.
Sounds good, anonymous. Of course, in the interest of equal time we’re going to have to include the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, the Islamic pillars of religion and society, the Wiccan laws and Anton Levy’s Satanic Rede.
How can you honestly read “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.” and not think that endorses a specific religion?
The Barbary Treaties :
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
Ratified by the United States June 10, 1797
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm#art1
Jefferson’s 1777 Draft of a
Bill for Religious Freedom
“that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry;”
“that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor
under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude
his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or
propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a
dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because
he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule
of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own”
http://www.religioustolerance.org/virg_bil.htm
I’m putting the 10 commandments up on e-bay as soon as I can. I expect it will go for somewhere in the high 6 figures.
Sorry, Rupert Murdoch had the 10 Commandments trademarked. No E-Bay for you.
When I lived in Missouri, I used to see the 10 commandments everywhere. Really.
Many people had yard signs with the 10 commandments printed on them. They were in yards all over the place.
I thought it was a very effective statement of faith — individuals putting them in front of their house, in their very own yard.
A much more meaningful statement of faith, in my opinion, than trying to commandeer public property to display them on.
I just bought 10,000 Ten Commandment yard signs.We (Christians, Jews, ect)Will be taking back this country.By the way None of the Democrat candidates support the Ten Commandments.You know who to vote for in 2004.Out with the liberals.Even non-Christians want signs by the thousands.The sleeping giant has awoke.he is a coming baby.Bye Bye liberals.
History WILL remember Judge Moore as getting the movement started.And helping the Conservative agenda.Removing the Ten Commandments was the best thing to happen.People are raving MAD AS HELL in the Midwest states and the South.Keep it up Liberals it will back fire in 2004.Were coming.BYE BYE LIBERALS IN 2004.Look for Bush in office in 2004.HA HA HA!Just try to remove the Pledge in school and watch it back fire in your face.Unamerican not religious issue.They tryed with the flag and payed.Now they ARE REALLY going to pay!