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The judge best known
for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial
Building suggested earlier this year that the First Amendment only protects the religious speech of
Christians.
Roy Moore, the chief justice of Alabama's state Supreme Court, spoke at a
January luncheon hosted by Pro-Life Mississippi. In a video of the event
obtained by Raw Story, Moore spoke on his interpretation of the First Amendment.
“Everybody, to include the U.S. Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one
little word in the First Amendment called ‘religion.' They can't define it.”
Moore said. “They can't define it the way Mason, Madison and even the United
State Supreme Court defined it, 'the duties we owe to the creator and the manner
of discharging it.' They don’t want to do that, because that acknowledges a
creator god. Buddha didn't create us. Mohammed didn't create us. It's the god of
the Holy Scriptures.
Moore continued: "They didn't bring a Koran over on the pilgrim ship,
Mayflower. Let's get real. Let's go back and learn our history."
Maybe he can't be removed because he won an election you figure?
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Chief Justice Moore was overwhelmingly re-elected by a vote of the people of Alabama as Chief Justice in November of 2012 and took office in January of 2013.
Why is he even allowed on the bench, why can't they remove him since he has already demonstrated his bias.
Justice Roy Moore, the birther judge. He wrote the minority dissenting opinion in a lawsuit filed by birthers in Alabama arguing the the Secretary of State should have demanded Obama's birth certificate before allowing him on the ballot in Alabama, making him a hero in birther circles. That tells you all you need to know about him.
(Happily, intelligent heads prevailed and the suit was dismissed on a 7-2 vote).
The fact that this man gets elected to a judicial post condemns the voters of the state as supporters of institutionalized, unconstitutional Dominionism.
I hope he stays there as he is a prime example of religious and racial bigotry that characterizes the ignorance, religiosity and bigotry of the reactionary Republican party. His example serves to warn the rest of us of what to expect if the Republicans get to rule all of America.
He didn't say that. He didn't say that the First Amendment "only protects Christians." He said nothing of the sort, and nothing even close to that.
What he said was that the word "creator" in the Declaration if Independence refers to the God of the Holy Scriptures, and he is correct.
There isn't anything that he said in this video that is not correct. Not one thing. Anyone who thinks he is not correct does not know our history, or from where our laws have been derived (he correctly mentions Blackstone, and the English Common Law).
As for the First Amendment, it was included to protect the church from the government, not the other way around. "Separation of church and state" is only a metaphor, derived from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists. The phrase has been incorrectly interpreted and used to change the meaning of the First Amendment altogether. But a study of our founding, our Constitution, and the writings of our founders reveals that no such "separation" (as it is interpreted today) was ever intended or envisioned.
The founders sought to prevent the "establishment" of one religious sect (Christian) by the government as the "official" state religion. Since virtually all of the colonists in all of the colonies were Christians of one sect or another, it is highly unlikely that the founders in the writing of the First Amendment had anything other than the Christian religion in mind. Judge Moore makes this point as well.
Does it? Nothing else matters? You're a single issue voter?
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