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Religion and Civil Rights |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--A TEN COMMANDMENTS COUNTRY? |
| Author: John Samples |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,116 Words, 13,397 Characters |
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The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has a way of making a point. By placing a 5,280-pound granite monument in the state's judicial building in Montgomery in July 2001, Roy S. Moore provoked a media frenzy and constitutional struggle. Moore was not simply seeking publicity (though as an elected judge, he was doing that also). He has also brought himself considerable trouble.
His refusal to remove the monument at the direction of a federal court led to an ethics complaint charging that Moore refused "to respect and comply with the law" and "willfully failed to comply with an existing and binding court order directed at him." In August 2003, Moore was suspended from the state court until a hearing in November. The monument was placed in storage. In early November the U.S. Suprem...
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...read more deeply in the political philosophy of the American founders, his adversaries need to recognize the consequences of their own prejudices and the importance of mutual respect in fostering a culture that supports limited government. In different ways, both Moore and his critics should recognize the limits that the American founders wisely fashioned on even the most enlightened among us.
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