BILL PRYOR:  A TROUBLING APPOINTMENT    
Tuesday, February 24, 2004

President Bush made a recess appointment on February 20th and placed Bill Pryor on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.  This has caused consternation among conservative leadership and more especially among the folds in Alabama who stood boldly for Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments.

Pryor hit the front pages of most newspapers when he prosecuted Chief Justice Moore. Pryor pushed for relieving Chief Justice Moore
of his position when the Chief Justice refused to remove the
5,200 pound Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building.

If you will visit www.morallaw.org, you will see and hear the former Attorney General Pryor’s cross-examination of Chief Justice Moore. It will shock you.

You will see with your own eyes that the Ten Commandments turned out not to be the real issue. The real issue from the beginning and during the trial was whether or not God would be acknowledged in government.

Bill Pryor made sure during his cross-examining of Judge Moore, that he would put the law above personal convictions. This could have been calculated to speed up
his nomination to the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta,
which handles cases from Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

There is a new display at the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery. The display surrounds the Ten Commandments with historical documents. This sounds like a victory, but don’t be deceived. This kind of display puts God’s word on the same level
as man’s laws, and therefore, takes God’s
name in vain.

The courts have made the statement that a public display of the Ten Commandments
is legal if you surround it with historical documents. Why? Because, then, it is not displayed as the word of God!

This is not a victory for our First Amendment rights to acknowledge God in freedom; it is a victory for the ACLU. The courts have made
it clear that if you display the Ten Commandments in this way it is okay.
because it doesn’t mean anything.

Judge Moore’s lawyer, Phillip Jaurequi, said Bush made a poor decision on putting Pryor
on the 11th Circuit.

“Pryor’s judicial philosophy is one of judicial imperialism, whereby he places the opinions
of judges over the Constitution and even over the God whom the Declaration of Independence says give us life,” he said.

We must preserve our First Amendment right
to acknowledge God. Judge Roy Moore stood up for God to be acknowledged in government. Bill Pryor did not, yet President Bush has awarded to him a higher appointment. This
is troubling.

“By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter: choosing rather to endure
ill-treatment with the people of God, than
to enjoy the passing of pleasures of sin…”
Hebrews 11:24-25