ROY MOORE REFUSES TO REMOVE THE MONUMENT
Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has no intention of abandoning his fight to keep the 5,300 lb Ten Commandments monument firmly planted in the rotunda of the State Judiciary Center, and on August 16th, thousands gathered to show their support for the Chief Justice.

Chief Justice Roy Moore does not believe that his monument that is inscribed with the Ten Commandments and other historical documents violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee against the “establishment of religion.”

But U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has ordered Moore to remove the granite monument from the rotunda of the judicial building by August 20th, and Moore has refused. Because of his refusal, he faces fines and possible jail time.

According to Rick Scarborough, co-Chairman of Vision America, the rally’s sponsor: “There are so many who are not going to just sit back and watch them move (the monument) out.”

“The issue,” says Scarborough, “falls under the Acts 5 definition of disobedience. It is Acts 5 that Peter and the Apostles say, “We must obey God rather than men.”

Could disagreement with the court lead to civil disobedience, fines and arrests? Yes, say many who attended the rally in Montgomery in support of the Judge Roy Moore.

The question that many authorities in the State of Alabama must come to grips with is which law will they up hold – God’s law or man’s law?

Howard Phillips, former presidential nominee of the Constitution Party gave out the office number of Attorney General Bill Pryor and asked those at the rally to call and voice there opinion. Phillips asked them to pray that Pryor “will subordinate his personal ambition” and instead defend both the U.S. and Alabama Constitution. Then Phillips called on Thompson and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Justices to resign, saying they will be remembered as the “Benedict Arnolds of American jurisprudence.”

The defiance by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is deeply disturbing, said “Richard Land of the Southern Baptist’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. “One of the foundational principles of America law is that we believe in the rule of law.”

However, in Moore’s announcement that he would refuse to remove the monument, he said he had “maintained the rule of law.”

Richard Land who is correct on many issues is nevertheless pro-separation of Church and State, I am sorry to say. I served on the Christian Life Commission with Richard Land for 8 years before the name was changed to Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. While a trustee, I introduced a motion in support of Justice Roy Moore and his stand to uphold the Ten Commandments. The motion was voted on, and defeated because of Richard Land’s lobbying efforts and his separation of Church and State position.

My motion to support Judge Roy Moore and his stand on the Ten Commandments was defeated on the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention! I will never forget the shock!

God however will be glorified in this issue because God will be God. The Declaration of Independence states clearly that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

According to Roy Moore, the government’s role is to secure those rights.