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Justice Served to Ten Commandments Judge

November 13, 2003

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is deceptively calling his dismissal from office a violation of his religious freedom. The truth is that the person Alabamans entrusted to be arbiter of law flagrantly violated that law, and then was justly punished.

Moore simply hopes to gain further publicity for his extreme, unconstitutional, and illogical position that the Ten Commandments represent the foundation of American law and should be promoted as such. The Alabama court as well as the Supreme Court already sent Moore the clear message that blatant displays of the Ten Commandments on government property violate our first law of the land.

This whole course of events confirms the intent of our nation’s founders that the basis of our own secular government is not Christian theology and certainly not a particular sectarian version of a divinely revealed decalogue, the Ten Commandments.

See American for Religious Liberty statement "Supreme Court’s Rejection Of Ten Commandments Monument Applauded" http://www.arlinc.org/press/TenCommandments.html

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