The people's judge: Justice Roy Moore. Joseph Farah on why Moore is genuine national hero

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, August 22, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, August 22, 2003

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[Byron_the_Aussie]

Right. Let's get all our ducks in a row, on this one.

On one side, we've got Judge Moore, Rabbi Levin, and now Joseph Farah, all drawing a line in the sand on this Ten Commandments issue, and saying 'this far and no further!' to the liberals. I say that line-up deserves Freeper respect and support.

On the other side we have the ACLU, militant gays, secular leftists, and a handful of senior Freepers, who should know better but have allowed their usual common-sense conservatism to become waylaid by over-focus on the legal aspects of the matter. Right at the time when we are on the cusp of getting behind Judge Moore activism-wise, and there are threads planning freeps in support of his stance. Now I am asking you guys to suppress your concerns, to go with the collective view here and to stop undermining FR's cohesion and motivation as the issue goes from red to white-hot over the next few days. Respectfully, Byron

[goldstategop]

If we can't acknowledge the universal foundation of American law, I'm afraid we will go the way of Rome.

[JohnHuang2]

G'mornin to ya, friend, from sunny Florida.

[wimpycat]

Enough of this already. Stop pinging me to these threads.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Great article John

It's time for Americans to rally around this man, his cause and tell the ACLU to take its meddling to some other country.

America was founded on the principle of self-government. We can't have self-government without the Ten Commandments, without biblical principles of right and wrong, without a basic code of morality.

This is not a question of separation of church and state. No church is being established in Alabama or the U.S. when we acknowledge the power and principality of the Ten Commandments in our lives and in the life of our country.

Its amazing how a 15,000 pound rock can supposedly promote Itself thats what the ACLU calls it anyway I wish i could be among those protestors helping to defend Judge Moore and that great rock which holds the ten commandments.

Mornin Byron still full of that great common sense i see we need a concerted effort to oust the ACLU out of the lives of the people it oppreses its time to take this country back from those who would see it driven into the ground by tyrannizing its people its religions and its laws!

God bless Judge Moore and all those who recognize this attack on God and the most basic principles of this land The ten commandments!

[Republic]

The Bible is repleat with 'legalists' who attempted to subvert the spirit of the laws laid down by God.

Judge Moore is a hero. Big time.

I salute his knowledge of the foundations of our moral code, embrace his intense ability to EDUCATE us all on the foundations of our system of law, admire his steady staying of the course, have profound respect for his standing up for his state, its constitution and his adherance to the same and wish we had a few thousand more judges just like him!

For myself, were I ever to be in a position to be standing before a judge, I would want that judge to understand the rule of law in exactly the same manner this good judge does.

[gridlock]

You know I love you Byron. In a brotherly sort of way, of course. And I often support Farah in his calls for greater suspicion and vigilance against government encroachment. But I can't go down this path with you.

What Judge Roy Moore is doing is wrong. This is what government establishment of religion looks like. Specifically citing a religious text as the basis for law establishes that text as a component of a government religion. The hazard of doing so far outweighs any benefit that society can derive.

The Ten Commandments has been, and will remain, the guiding principal for the morality of the majority of Americans. Americans are free to structure their legal system to reflect and codify that morality, if they wish to do so. But they are not free to establish the Ten Commandments as a component of a state religion.

I will not even bemoan the fact that this freedom does not exist. Witness the Taliban. Some things are just too powerful to be left to the will of the mob.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

No. Not only no, but hell no.

[Non-Sequitur]

"Who is it who cannot see that the same who would consecrate Christianity above all other religions would then have to consecrate a particular sect of Christians above all other sects?" -- James Madison

By displaying only one version of the 10 Commandments, Judge Moore has implicitly endorsed one sect of Christianity above the others; and endorsed Christianity above Judaism, Islam, and all other religions. That's where the Constitutional violation comes in.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..this is what government establishment of religion looks like...

There is no government establishment of religion involved in the judge's actions, my friend. None at all. Just a simple acknowledgement of the keystone of your (and ours) legal system, and its foundation. Exactly the kind of daily reminder the legal profession need, as they walk into court these days. Cheers, By

[Chancellor Palpatine]

On further reflection, I will add that it will be a cold day in hell before I fall for the legal and rhetorical gyrations of a puppet of grifting televangelicals like Roy Moore. I hope others recognize the same, stalling your hoped for confrontation in its tracks.

[.30Carbine]

Spot on.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..stalling your hoped for confrontation in its tracks...

....any reader of this thread can see who's 'hoping for confrontation', bud.

[Bluntpoint]

Byron and Chancey sitting in a tree..........

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Pot stirrer, LOL.

[SedVictaCatoni]

SedVictaCatoni, J., concurred in the judgment.

[texgal]

By displaying only one version of the 10 Commandments, Judge Moore has implicitly endorsed one sect of Christianity above the others; and endorsed Christianity above Judaism, Islam, and all other religions. That's where the Constitutional violation comes in.

It seems to me then that you're saying that our constituion and all the founding documents are unconstitutional because they acknowledge God. America was founded as a CHRISTIAN nation that would tolerate (not embrace) the rights of others to worship as they please.

Those whom we have tolerated are far less tolerant towards us as Christians and are now seeking to remove our rights.

The rule of law is not what some black robed traitors decide that it is today if it conflicts with the Constitution and the intent of the founders to be found in their writings. One quote, taken out of context does not reflect the intent of the founders.

What Judge Moore and his supporters are doing should have been done long ago when prayer and posting of the Ten Commandments were removed from the classrooms in our schools.

God Bless and God Speed Judge Roy Moore.

[reasonseeker]

This whole article begins a FABRICATED quote attributed to James Madison. See http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/madphony.htm

It is also a fabrication to claim that the Ten Commandments is the sole basis of the laws of the United States, while ignoring the huge influence that ancient Greek and Roman civiliation had on its formation.