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Toomuchtimeonhands
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 Posted: 08/27/03 - 09:40 Post subject: Commandments moved
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I don't care too much one way or another, but you have to appreciate the irony of Moore receiving 6 ethics violations.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/27/ten.commandments/index.html
| Quote: | MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Movers Wednesday morning relocated the controversial Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building. The 5,300-pound granite slab remains in the building, but out of public view.
The Washington-based Christian Defense Coalition, filed a federal lawsuit in Mobile on Monday to block the removal. A hearing on that case was canceled Wednesday morning.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore placed the monument in the judicial building's rotunda in August 2001.
The state's Judicial Inquiry Commission suspended him from office last week for his refusal to move it. Moore argues that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of the U.S. legal system and that forbidding the acknowledgment of the Judeo-Christian God violates the First Amendment.
The Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council in Washington, D.C., told CNN on Wednesday, "The building manager has told us that the monument will not be removed from the premises."
Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said one firm contacted about removing the monument has refused to do so, and he urged Moore's supporters to boycott any company that took the job.
"When we discover that (moving) company, I think they're going to be sorry they cooperated with this act," Schenck said.
The company that built the monument and put it in place two years ago refused to remove it, the state attorney general said.
Tuesday, Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor told CNN that he believed the monument was appropriately displayed but that he was obligated to carry out a federal court order requiring its removal and it would be gone before Friday.
The commission has charged Moore with six ethics violations for defying a federal court order to remove the monument. Commission spokeswoman Margaret Childers said Moore has 30 days to respond to the ethics charges. The state's Court of the Judiciary could decide to punish Moore or even remove him from the bench.
Three Alabama lawyers sued over its display, and U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson found it was an unconstitutional promotion of religion.
Moore appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court refused to stay Thompson's order, which had demanded that the monument be removed by midnight August 20.
Richard Cohen, chief legal counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said the monument's placement is a violation of law.
"It's a clear government endorsement or promotion of religion," he said. "Justice Moore has used the monument to promote his version of Christianity, and the government really can't play favorites when it comes to something so important as religion."
Many of Moore's backers waited outside the state judicial building through the weekend, threatening to block efforts to remove the monument. |
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sinrakin
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Posted: 08/27/03 - 09:42 Post subject:
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The six violations are nice, but someone explain to me why he wasn't charged with contempt of court. If it were you or me in that sort of situation, you can damn bet we would have been.
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Paco
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Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posted: 08/27/03 - 11:25 Post subject:
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I believe there was also a $5k a day fine too..wonder if he'll have to pay that..hehe..
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