Inside...
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Dr. Kennedy Challenges Pastors
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Special Sunday for Freedom
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CENTER
Reaches Hill Interns
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Moore Advisors Answer Critics
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Spot Filmed in Washington
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Biased-Poll Reversed
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Who Makes the Rules?
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Moore
Puts God's Law
In Alabama Supreme Court |
 Higher Authority
At the unveiling, Moore cited U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a staunch liberal, who declared in a 1961 Court ruling that, “‘the institutions of our society are founded on the belief that there is an authority higher than the authority of the State; that there is a moral law which the State is powerless to alter; that the individual possesses rights, conferred by the Creator, which government must respect.’”
“Today, a mere forty years later,” Moore said, “many judges and other government officials deny any higher law and forbid the teaching to our children that they are created in the image of an Almighty God, while they purport that it is government—and not God—who gave us our rights.”
Dr. Kennedy congratulated Moore for his action, stating that the Chief Justice has |
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Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, looks at the
Ten Commandments monument he commissioned and placed in the
rotunda of the state Supreme Court building in August. |
taken a “gigantic step toward restoring God to a proper position as the ultimate authority in this land.”
Moore’s action resolved doubts raised early in his term about whether he would
post the Ten Commandments. |
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore surprised many on August 1 when he unveiled a granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state Supreme Court building.
The four-foot tall monument features the Ten Commandments on top with |
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The monument is a reminder, Moore said, that “in order to establish justice we must invoke ‘the favor and guidance of Almighty God.’”
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The question came after he placed his wooden hand-carved Ten Commandments plaque on the wall of his outer office, instead of a more public setting.
That plaque, posted on his courtroom wall while serving as an Alabama district court judge,
sparked a 1995 ACLU lawsuit charging the plaque |
quotations from official acts and America’s founders on the sides that attest, Moore said, to “the moral foundation of law.”
The cube-shaped, 5,280-pound Vermont granite monument was placed in the judicial building’s marble-columned rotunda the night before its public installation. It will remind Alabama courts and citizens that “in order to establish justice we must invoke ‘the favor and guidance of Almighty God,’” said Moore.
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was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.
Moore fought back energetically, effectively winning in 1998, when the Alabama Supreme Court threw out the case on technical grounds. Dr. Kennedy and Coral Ridge Ministries stood by Moore throughout his legal ordeal, providing $130,000 for his legal defense.
Moore, a household name in Alabama for his stout defense of acknowledging God in public life, began work on the Ten Commandments monument immediately after he handily won the race for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice last November.
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