Next Ten Commandments Battle Brewing
CBS New York, NY
ANDALUSIA, Ala. -- Another Alabama judge could be at the center of the next Ten Commandments battle. Covington County Circuit Judge Ashley McCathan (mihk-CA'-thin) wears a robe in court embroidered with the Biblical rules. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore lost his job over a fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial building. Now Judge McCathan's decision could bring another court challenge to the southern state.

SC lawmakers push for Ten Commandments law
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA -- Two state lawmakers have again filed legislation seeking to display the Ten Commandments in public buildings. The bill by state Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, proposes that the commandments be displayed prominently in the Statehouse alongside historical documents. Rep. Marty Coates, R-Florence, proposes the commandments be allowed on any property belonging to the state and alongside historical documents. Neither lawmaker specified which historical documents.

Residents dismayed over Ten Commandments' removal from park
WKYT, KY
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Some residents are dismayed over the removal of a Ten Commandments tablet that had been at Roger Williams Park for four decades. City officials removed the monument with the basic Christian tenets last fall, with no advance announcement. The act surprised some people, such as Raymond Dempsey, who co-hosts a weekly cable television show called "Chapter and Verse."

Atheists to Rally Against Judge
Andalusia Star-News, AL
Atheists are planning to protest local Circuit Court Judge Ashley McKathan's "Ten Commandments robe" today, in front of the First Baptist Church in Opp. At noon today (Wednesday), former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will be in attendance at a Rotarian meeting in the church's fellowship hall, where he has said he will publicly support McKathan's robe. Larry Darby, president of the Montgomery-based Atheist Law Center, organized the protest and has called for fellow atheists to join him to voice their non-support. Judge McKathan's judicial robe, and its golden-yellow King James version of the Decalogue, has sparked national debate and coverage.

Ala. Judge Wears Ten Commandments on Robe
Covenant News Wire Service
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A south Alabama judge refused to delay a trial yesterday when an attorney objected to the judge's wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered in gold on the front of the garment. Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up on Dec. 13 at his Covington County courtroom in Andalusia wearing the robe at the start of a week of jury trials of cases that were being appealed from lower courts.

Thomas More Law Center Files Supreme Court
Brief in Support of Ten Commandments Display
Covenant News Wire Service
The Supreme Court's acceptance of a case dealing with the public display of the Ten Commandments is long overdue. The high court's decision in this case could determine how courts will analyze future disputes over the display of other religious symbols on public property, such as nativity scenes and Christian crosses.

Roy Moore files brief in Ten Commandments case
Former Alabama justice files brief in Ten Commandments case
The Sierra Times
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has weighed in on a Ten Commandments case before the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices in a legal brief to acknowledge God as the source of all laws. Justices are expected to hear arguments early next year from two Kentucky counties that contend they should be able to display the Ten Commandments in their courthouses as a way to educate the public about history and celebrate the country's heritage.

Jury Finds 11 Christians Guilty
11 convicted of obstructing
police in removal of Commandments
Eleven protesters who knelt and prayed around a Ten Commandments monument in Idaho were convicted yesterday of obstructing and delaying the police in the removal of the item from a public park. The Christian demonstrators were arrested March 29 as they prayed at the monument, which was donated to the city of Boise in 1965.

High court tackles crucial Commandments case
Supremes receiving full briefing
on issue for 1st time in history
WorldNetDaily.com
In a case that could change how courts address religion's role in public institutions, two public-interest groups filed briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that declared a Ten Commandments display in Kentucky unconstitutional.

American Legion fights to preserve
Ten Commandments in U.S. Supreme Court
Covenant News Wire Service
The American Legion filed a brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court case, McCreary County v. ACLU, which will determine the public display of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse. The American Legion is a patriotic, war-time veteran’s organization consisting of approximately 2.7 million members in nearly 14,000 American Legion Posts worldwide, including Puerto Rico, France, Mexico and the Philippines. The Legion urged the court to protect the public displays of religious imagery and preserve our nation’s veterans’ memorials.

Ten Commandments Monument Makes Its Way To Nacogdoches
KTRE, TX
Many who came to witness the monument at Saturday's rally were upset about it's removal last year. Johnny Dammon, pastor at Fredonia Hill Baptist Church said, "I felt that it was inappropriate [to remove the monument]. The Ten Commandments has been part of our society and our culture and our bedrock of belief throughout history." Steve King, a monument visitor said, "It's just another breach of religious liberty. The whole foundation of our country is based on the Ten Commandments and the laws of the Bible."

A Monumental Visit
News Journal, TX
Spring Hill Independent School District became a part of living history Tuesday morning when the Ten Commandments monument rolled into the high school parking lot on a flat-bed trailer. The Longview school was the 74th stop for the monument that has made a trek throughout the country in the past few months as part of the American Veterans Faith and Freedom National Tour.

Controversial Ten Commandments Monument In East Texas
KLTV, TX
It was one year ago, almost to the day, that the Ten Commandments monument was removed from an Alabama courthouse. For months the monument was put away, until a group of Veterans began touring with it across the country. Today it made a stop in Longview for some students. "Honor thou father and mother. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal," a Spring Hill student reads the commandments.

Ten Commandments monument tour visits Bossier City
Shreveport Times, LA
Christian Montessori Academy teacher Kelly Christman brought her class of seventh- and eighth-graders to First Baptist Bossier for "a historic event" Monday afternoon. After being ousted from an Alabama courthouse last year, a two and a half-ton granite replica of the Ten Commandments made its 73rd stop on a 15-state tour.

Chief Justice Roy Moore Speaks to First Coast Congregation
First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore gave his testimony to the Westside Baptist Church congregation on Sunday morning. Moore was removed from the Alabama court system after refusing to remove a monument from his courthouse listing the Ten Commandments. The monument was removed from the Alabama Judicial Building on August 27, 2003.

Chief Justice Roy Moore urges lawmakers and citizens
to support the Constitutional Restoration Act of 2004
First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Asked about his thoughts on the role of political correctness and the ACLU, Moore said they create a dangerous precedent to the foundations of our freedoms. "Very dangerous trends when you have the ACLU saying they're standing for civil liberties when they're taking the very author of those liberties away. Our Constitution and our Declaration (of Independence)were not founded on the precept that man gives us our rights. It's that God gives us out rights," said Moore. And he urges lawmakers and citizens alike to support the Constitutional Restoration Act of 2004. "Which says, when a State of Federal official acknowledges God, the Federal courts have no jurisdiction to interfere with that. It's prohibited by the First Ammendment, by the Tenth Ammendment and certainly by the Constitutions of every state, which are the rule of laws," said Moore.

Old South causes win support in Ala.
Justice linked to pro-Confederates
By Jay Reeves / The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, ALA. -- Old times are not forgotten in the heart of Dixie. Alabama voters elected a Supreme Court candidate linked to Old South ideals and apparently killed a move to strike segregationist language from the state Constitution, a victory of sorts for the state's neo-Confederate crowd. Michael Hill, president of the pro-secession League of the South, said Tom Parker's election Tuesday and the Amendment Two results make it obvious that many Alabama voters still identify with Southern causes.

Election Fuels Speculation On Roy Moore's Future
NBC13.com, AL
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- He wasn't on Tuesday's ballot, but ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore's influence on two contests is fueling speculation about his effort to make a political comeback in 2006. Moore backed Tom Parker, a former associate who won a seat on the state Supreme Court, and he was the first politician to speak out against a proposal to remove segregation-era language from Alabama's constitution. With only a few precincts to count, Amendment 2 appears to be going down to defeat.

Hartwell city council votes against Ten Commandments display
AccessNorthGA
HARTWELL, Ga. -- While its county courthouse shows off a framed copy of the Ten Commandments, the city of Hartwell is shying away from its own display. City Manager Phil Hertz had ordered the police chief to remove the wall hanging at the department Oct. 15, citing the city charter which bans the use of public property for personal reasons unless approved by the city council. The display, purchased by the officers, initially went up in February. Last week, the council finalized the decision by voting 3-2 against the Ten Commandments posting.

Scouts schedule Commandments Hike
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- The Tri-State Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, has combined concerns for fitness and faith by scheduling its Ten Commandments Hike on Saturday, Nov. 6. The hike -- which is open to the public, religious youth groups, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts -- will begin with check-in at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, 1135 5th Ave., at 8:30 a.m. and will continue until 3 p.m.

America's religious heritage vanishing
The Spectrum
The religious traditions that have played such a crucial role in developing our American heritage are under attack. They are being marginalized or completely erased. It's sad to see so many stand by complacently watching America's religious overtones vanish. Or even worse, to see the many who actually begin to believe that our society really is better off without any mention of God, because he has become so offensive.

Pastors, Join the Black Regiment!
by David Alan Black
Why does it seem that Americans are the only people on earth who are blind to the truth and ignorant of their history? Wherever you look, we can see the vision of freedom that once deluged our shores being swept away. We have to wonder how much longer our American Republic can survive.

City manager Phil Hertz pulls down
Commandments plaque from station wall
The Hartwell Sun
The removal of the plaque from the Hartwell City Police Department comes in the midst of recent national controversy on the issue, fueled locally by the Hart County Commissioners' decision Oct. 12 to allow citizen Robert Wesley to post the commandments in the county courthouse. Mayor Matt Beasley said Wednesday that he "fully supports Phil Hertz's decision as city manager."

No Ten Commandments in Hartwell Police Department
WNEG, GA
A copy of the Ten Commandments is no longer posted in the Hartwell Police Department. The copy was up for more than six months. But when the city manager found out, he ordered it taken down. City Manager Phil Hertz says the police department posted a copy of the Ten Commandments in an office hallway more than six months ago. They paid for it with their own personal money and hung it on a wall. But today, that part of the wall is empty after the city manager ordered the police department to take the Ten Commandments down. "I think if you're going to take an issue like this and you're going to post it, then I should have at least have been given the courtesy to say no. It would have been no at that time, no today. Until the council changes that, it will be no," says Hertz.

Barrow won’t spend more tax money in fight
Gwinnett Daily Post
WINDER -- Barrow County will no longer spend taxpayer money to fight its more than yearlong legal battle over displaying the Ten Commandments. In a 4-3 decision Tuesday night, the commission essentially turned to the Rev. Jody Hice and his group Ten Commandments-Georgia Inc. to raise money to fight the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has sued to keep a Commandments poster from hanging in the courthouse, saying the marker represents government-endorsed religion.

Ten Commandments: Religious message or civics lesson?
Provo Daily Herald, UT
Like a secular Moses descending from the mountaintop, the U.S. Supreme Court appears finally ready to lay down the law on government displays of the Ten Commandments. After 24 years of silence, the high court announced on Oct.12 that it would hear not just one, but two cases dealing with the Ten Commandments: Van Orden v. Perry from Texas and McCreary County v. ACLU from Kentucky.

Bush's shame!
President Bush Guilty Of Moral Cowardice
For Not Defending Roy Moore In His
Courageous 10 Commandments Fight
When Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore defied an illegal Federal court order -- and fought courageously to defend that 10 Commandments monument -- Christians all across America supported him. But, President Bush, who says he's a Christian, did and said, nothing!

ACLU demands Clay pull Commandments
Charleston Gazette
A state group has demanded Clay County commissioners remove a plaque of the Ten Commandments from their chamber or face legal action. Terri Baur, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, sent commissioners a letter on behalf of a Clay County resident. Several other people have also complained about the display, said Andrew Schneider, state ACLU director. “The complainant is a non-Christian who feels unwelcome in a governmental environment that endorses a particular religion and who is offended that the County has chosen to single out and sanction any religion,” Baur wrote.

Nicholas County Leaders Vote to Post Ten Commandments
WKYT TV-27 News
The ten commandments will go up in the Nicholas County courthouse. Members of the fiscal court voted 6 to 0 to display the commandments, along with other historical documents. Earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court said they would take up the issue of posting the ten commandments in public buildings. Two of the cases the high court will hear are from Kentucky, one in Pulaski county, the other McCreary County. The justices will hear the cases in February. A decision will be made in June. Nicholas County leaders say they are prepared to remove the commandments if the Supreme Court rules against them.

Commandments heading to court
Deseret News
Justices to hear 2 cases in 2005 on display of tablets
Some 25 years after ruling that the Ten Commandments have no place in public-school classrooms, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to extend its analysis to other types of government property. The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays in Kentucky courthouses and on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol building.

Monument will Return to Courthouse
NBC 25 TV-News
CUMBERLAND, MD -- Less than a week after the Ten Commandments were moved from the Allegany County Courthouse, they’re being moved back. "You could`ve knocked me over with a feather. We were intending to fight this issue for months if not years," said Ed Taylor, who is against the monument`s move. County administrator Vance Ishler, who made the original decision to move the Commandments, has made the call to move them back.

Monroe County Ten Commandments case maybe delayed
The Monroe County Advocate
The Monroe County government is in the middle of its own battle against the American Civil Liberties over a Ten Commandments display. The ACLU earlier this year sued Monroe County of behalf of Knoxville attorney Kelly O. Herston, who says he is offended by the Ten Commandments display that for now still hangs outside County Mayor Allan Watson’s first-floor office in the courthouse. [But] soon after he learned of the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Kentucky and Texas cases, Watson said he thinks it would be wise for the county’s case, currently in federal court, to be delayed until the Supreme Court renders its decision or decisions next year. One of the attorneys representing the county in it’s fight against the ACLU, Francis Manion from the American Center for Law and Justice, said Wednesday he has not made a final decision on whether or not delaying Monroe County’s case is the way to go.

Justice Roy Moore speaks in Greenwood
WTHR TV-News
Greenwood -- The Alabama judge who refused to move a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse spoke in Greenwood Wednesday night. Those gathered gave a standing ovation for Roy Moore, the man who was once the Chief Justice of Alabama's Supreme Court. "It tells me that the people of this country understand better the First Amendment than the judges and justices that sit in judgment thereof," he said. Pastor Greg Dixon and his Indianapolis Baptist Temple sponsored Wednesday night's event in Greenwood. That monument drew thousands of visitors here in Greenwood this past week. It heads to Columbus Ohio on Thursday.

Ten Commandments Battle
CBS TV-47 News
“The United States Supreme Court says it will now consider whether the Ten Commandments may be displayed on government property….which ends a 25-year silence on a church-state issue that has led to bitter legal battles around the country.

Earlier this year…the Supreme Court avoided having to rule on the constitutionality of saying “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance…by throwing it out of court on a technicality.

But now…the nation’s highest court has decided to decide…once and for all…a church and state issue that could tell us a lot about where our country is headed.

Now….in a country that was started by men of faith, and with founding documents that acknowledge the role of God in the creation of human beings and the United States, and with our national motto being “In God We Trust”….it’s hard to imagine the Supreme Court ruling against the Ten Commandments in public places.

Hart County Georgia OKs Ten Commandments
The Hartwell Sun
The Ten Commandments will be posted in a prominent place in the Hart County courthouse, commissioners decided in a unanimous vote Tuesday. After more than two hours of discussion and two separate motions concerning the issue, the board agreed to accept the gift of a Ten Commandments plaque from Robert Wesley and place it next to the mission statement in the county courthouse. County citizens, board members from Ten Commandments-Georgia and Hart County and Robert Wesley, the county citizen presenting the plaque, challenged the board to take a stand on the posting of the Commandments. Saying the cause of the Ten Commandments is "the right cause at the right place at the right time," Mike Griffin, of both the Hart County and Georgia Ten Commandments group, urged the commission to take a stand by voting for the posting.

Supreme Court jumps into issue
of Ten Commandments displays
The Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings, a surprise announcement that puts justices in the middle of a politically sensitive issue. Justices have repeatedly refused to revisit issues raised by their 1980 decision that banned the posting of copies of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

Residents happy Supreme Court
to hear Ten Commandments case
Kentucky.com
HARLAN, Ky. -- Some officials in conservative southeastern Kentucky towns celebrated as word spread that the U.S. Supreme Court would take up the constitutionality of Ten Commandments displays on government land and buildings. In McCreary County, former Judge-Executive Jimmie Greene heard the news from a local Christian radio station. "The Lord answers prayers," he said. "We're elated." Justices have repeatedly refused to revisit issues raised by their 1980 decision that banned the posting of copies of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. In the meantime, lower courts have reached a hodgepodge of conflicting rulings that allow displays in some instances but not in others. The high court will hear appeals early next year involving displays in Kentucky and Texas.

Restore the Ten Tour - Alabama's
Ten Commandments Visits Columbus
MarkHarringtonlive.com
Columbus, OH -- Reform America, an Ohio based Christian organization, announces the Restore the Ten Tour in Columbus, OH Oct. 15-17, 2004 featuring Alabama's controversial Ten Commandments monument. Affectionately known as "Roy's Rock" the 5000 pound granite monument caused a national controversy over church-state separation when then Chief Justice Roy Moore refused a court order to remove the decalogue from the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery, AL in 2003. Since that time the monument has been on the road touring the United States. The Columbus visit represents one of dozens of stops the monument has made since the beginning of 2004.

Moore fans rip decrees
Montgomery Advertiser
The turnout was small, but enthusiastic Saturday morning as supporters of ousted Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore gathered to honor him and once again voice their support for the Ten Commandments. The Rev. Kenneth Garner of the Rigby Street Baptist Church, one of the early arrivals for the "Spirit of Montgomery" rally, said he believes the Commandments are "the foundation for western law." "If you take away the Ten Commandments, you take away America's authority to govern," said Garner.

Judge strikes Ten Commandments vote
State judge says citizens of Boise, Idaho cannot place
Ten Commandments initiative on their own city ballot
IdahoStatesman.com
Fourth District Judge Ronald Wilper ruled Wednesday the city of Boise cannot hold an election on the Ten Commandments monument voter initiative. Leaders of the Keep the Commandments Coalition, a group formed in support of putting the monument on public property, said they will appeal the decision to the Idaho Supreme Court. "This is a very important issue when close to 19,000 citizens of Boise signed the petition (to hold an election on the initiative)," coalition spokeswoman Brandi Swindell said. Before the group even had the required number of signatures, Mayor Dave Bieter said he would follow city legal advice that the initiative was invalid. City attorneys said city code limits initiatives to creating ordinances or laws. Putting a monument in a park is an administrative decision that is not up to voters. The judge agreed.

Federal court decides on Allegheny
County courthouse plaque can stay
Ten Commandments has been on wall for 86 years
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A plaque of the Ten Commandments that has hung for 86 years on a wall outside the Allegheny County Courthouse can remain in place, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said the plaque doesn't violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Its decision upholds a district judge's ruling in July 2003, which found the plaque didn't endorse any religion.

Federal judge to rule in Everett Ten Commandments case
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Jesse Card, a 21-year-old Everett resident, sued the city over the monument last year, aided by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS), a Washington, D.C.-based organization that is seeking the removal of publicly displayed Ten Commandment markers in other states. The 6-foot-tall granite slab inscribed with the Ten Commandments and displayed in front of Everett's police headquarters, partially obscured by trees, was donated to the city in 1959 by the Everett Eagles as part of a national program by the Ohio-based Fraternal Order of Eagles. AUSCS lawyer Benjamin Block said the historical mention of a deity in government -- the inscription of "In God We Trust" on currency, for instance -- was much different from the monument, which gave a clear command: " 'Thou shalt have no other Gods before me' and other texts."

Bible's momentous journey documented
South Bend Tribune, IN
ELKHART -- With the goal of illuminating the Christian foundation of the United States, the exhibit "The Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America" has opened at Concord Mall. The exhibit includes some of the 2,250-year-old fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Hebrew examples of the earliest known witnesses to the Hebrew Bible. It also displays early copies of the Bible in Latin and Greek. The exhibit brings the viewer into the modern age with a collection of contemporary Bibles, including one that went to the moon. To further illustrate the ongoing struggle to acknowledge the Christian roots of the United States, Steven Hite said, the display this week hosted the 5,300-pound Ten Commandments tablets that were removed by federal court order in 2003 from the Montgomery courtroom of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.

Supreme Court refuses to hear Justice Moore's appeal
High court rejects appeal of judge's case
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The three-year legal battle over ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments monument ended quietly Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Moore's final appeal. The high court made no comment in declining Moore's request to reverse his expulsion last year by a state judicial ethics panel for refusing a federal judge's order to remove the 5,300-pound monument from the Alabama courthouse. Moore said in a statement that it was hypocritical for the "liberal Supreme Court" to turn down his appeal even though the justices begin each session with the phrase, "God save the United States and this honorable court." "Obviously, when they open their courts this way the majority of the court doesn't really mean it," said Moore, whose appeal to keep the monument in the courthouse was rejected by the court last year.

Roy S. Moore v. Judicial Inquiry Commission Of The State Of Alabama
Foundation for Moral Law__(pdf format)

At Issue:

1. Whether, under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment as applied to the States, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary required an unconstitutional religious test as a qualification to public office when it removed Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore from office because he refused to obey a federal court order—and unrepentantly would continue to refuse any similar court order—prohibiting him from freely acknowledging God as the moral foundation of law.

2. Whether the Alabama Court of the Judiciary, in a proceeding charging Chief Justice Roy S. Moore with breaching the Canons of Judicial Ethics, denied the Chief Justice his property without due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment, by refusing to hear his defense that the underlying court order, which prohibited him from acknowledging God as the moral foundation of law, was unlawful and unethical.

October Nationwide Ten Commandments Rallies
Southern Party of Georgia
These rallies will feature the famous Ten Commandments Monument taken from the Alabama Supreme Court Building. This monument was the center of the legal fight when Judge Roy Moore was sued by the ACLU as he was courageously defending our faith. Come and view the Monument and join the rallies.

Commandments Ballot Initiative Goes to Court
Keep The Commandments Coalition Argues Against City In Court
KBCI, ID
BOISE -- The Keep The Commandments Coalition took on the city in court Friday in an attempt to get a voter initiative on the ballot. The coalition wants a new Ten Commandments Monument placed in Julia Davis Park. They argued the decision to remove the original monument was not an executive act of the city, but an act of the city council. The city attorney argued the monument was moved because of an administrative act given to the city by state code. The judge in the case is expected to issue a written decision sometime next week. But before the proceedings began the judge said if he does rule in favor of the coalition, it is already too late to get a voter initiative on the November ballot.

Birmingham Police Wear Controversial Pin
Pin Serves As Memorial For Fallen Officers
NBC13.com, AL
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Birmingham police officers are wearing a new pin to show their commitment to law enforcement and also to support the families of the victims of three slain officers, who lost their lives earlier this summer. The pins were issued shortly after the three officers -- Charles Bennett, Harley Chisholm and Carlos Owen -- were killed while trying to serve a warrant on June 17. Officers continue to show their support and pay their respects by wearing a Ten Commandments pin. "A gentleman donated the pins to us, and Chief Nunn gave officers permission to wear the pins, and it signifies one of the commandments -- ‘Thou shall not kill’ -- in remembrance of the officers," said Lt. Henry Irby.

Court may tackle Commandments public display issue
The Jewish Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court may tackle questions regarding the legal rights of religious prisoners this session, as well as whether the public display of the Ten Commandments violates the separation of church and state. In what may be the last year of the current makeup of the court, legal experts at several American Jewish organizations are expecting the court to again debate the balance between allowing free expression of religion and preventing governmental establishment of religion. The court will likely not announce its schedule for the year until next week, when it officially opens on the first Monday in October. The fact that lower courts have had contradictory rulings on religious issues increases the chances that they will be heard by the high court.

Frederick Plans To Fence Off Ten Commandments
WBAL Channel
FREDERICK, Md. -- The city of Frederick plans to put a fence between a privately owned Ten Commandments monument and adjacent park land to delineate the property and possibly resolve a lawsuit, a city official said Wednesday. The city is reviewing suggestions from a downtown historic district committee regarding the design of the barrier, Facilities Manager Pat Keegin said.

Ten Commandments tour in Brunswick
Florida Times-Union
BRUNSWICK -- Deposed Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument stopped in Brunswick Wednesday on a tour that organizers hope will end with its placement in the nation's Capitol. About 70 people stood in the noon sun at Brunswick's Overlook Park to listen to Jim Cabaniss, co-founder of American Veterans in Domestic Defense, as he stood on a flatbed truck with Moore's granite monument and called for a return to the Ten Commandments as a foundation of America's moral law.

Commandments Monument Tour Draws Support
The Brunswick News
Moses carried them from Mount Sinai in the Book of Exodus. Alabama carted them out of its Supreme Court building last year. Wednesday, the Ten Commandments reached Brunswick, where city and Glynn County leaders gathered to throw their support behind what rally organizers called the "foundation of our moral law." About 40 people were at Overlook Park to get a glimpse of the a two-and-a-half-ton carved granite block — the controversial monument that cost Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore his seat on the state's Supreme Court last November, after he refused court orders to remove the display from the rotunda of the Alabama judicial building.

Judge dismisses lawsuit asking
Moore to pay monument court costs
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit demanding that Roy Moore pay the attorneys' fees for the groups that sued to have his Ten Commandments monument removed from the state judicial building. The state agreed to pay more than $500,000 in fees for attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Those are the groups that won a federal court order to have the 5,300-pound monument moved eventually leading to Moore's ouster as chief justice. But a group of citizens said Moore used arguments that he knew would lose in his defense of the monument, and that he, NOT taxpayers, should have to foot the bill. Moore praised Montgomery County Circuit Judge Tracy McCooey for dismissing the suit. Moore says there was NO legal basis for the suit.

Farmer Paints Ten Commandments On Barn
NewsNet TV-5
DELLROY, Ohio -- Thou shalt not miss this message. That's what Jay Power hopes will happen after having the Ten Commandments painted on his barn about 500 feet away from state Route 542. Power, 66, a farmer who considers himself a biblical scholar, placed an ad in July for help painting the Ten Commandments on his barn. Five people responded, and he asked the potential painters to submit a design. He chose one submitted by Dave Wagner, of nearby Alliance, and the painting was finished about a week ago. "I'd asked them to make it look like two tablets, and Dave did a fantastic job," Power said.

Atty. Gen. enters legal battle over Ten Commandments
Lawrence Journal World
Topeka -- Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline has entered the legal battle to maintain public displays of the Ten Commandments. Kline joined nine other state attorneys general in a friend-of-the-court legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Texas Capitol grounds. The dispute is over whether the 6-foot-high by 3-foot-wide granite monument violates the First Amendment stricture against a government-established religion.

God and the Activist Judges
Human Events
Don't think that the lawsuits about the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance are settled because Judge Roy Moore was fired and Michael Newdow lost his appeal to the Supreme Court. Dozens of similar cases are boiling up all over the country. Since 1999, 24 Ten Commandments cases have been filed, and court confusion is accelerating.

Controversial monument in Humansville for festival
Herald-Free Press
Humansville Fall Festival-goers lined up behind a trailer to get a picture of a controversial stone last weekend. The Ten Commandments monument that was taken out of the Alabama Supreme Court building nearly a year ago was in Humansville last week just in time for the town's annual festival. The Veterans Faith and Freedom National Tour was not scheduled to be in Missouri until next month, but after hearing of the lawsuit against the Humansville School District and the termination of Superintendent Gregory Thompson, Moore instructed the veterans to be in Humansville for the festival.

Ten Commandments Monument Tour schedule for Toccoa
Southern Party of Georgia
On September 24, at 6:00 PM Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments Monument will be on Display in Toccoa, Georgia. This is part of the national Tour by American Veterans for God. We are very pleased that the Tour will be making this stop in Georgia and hope that as many as possible will plan on attending. There will be a short 90 minute Rally. This is short notice, so please help spread the word.

Ten Commandments in Bibb County update
Southern Party of Georgia
23 year old Ben Davis found "Friends of the Ten Commandments" online. The group believes support for the display of the commandments is written into the US Constitution. Ben Davis, Chairman: "Leave it to the locals that's how the founding fathers wanted it." Davis and his group have petitions like this one circulating in local churches. A petition that Davis says has a good shot here because of where he lives.

Fate of Capitol's Ten Commandments monumnet under review
The Associated Press
HELENA -- A state committee plans to decide Wednesday whether a 48-year-old granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments should remain on state property near the Capitol. That and 13 other plaques, statues and monuments scattered around the Capitol grounds will be subject to approval by the Capitol Complex Advisory Council, which will submit its recommendations to the 2005 Legislature.

Paper may print name in Commandments case, judge says
Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN -- A federal judge refused Tuesday to prohibit The World-Herald from publishing the name of a Plattsmouth man who has sued the city over a Ten Commandments monument. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf directed sharp questions at attorneys for both the ACLU and The World-Herald before deciding not to restrict the newspaper from printing the man's name. Larry King, executive editor of The World-Herald, said the newspaper has not decided whether, or when, it will identify the man. But that decision, he said, should be left to the newspaper - not the ACLU or the government.

ACLU Fights To Keep Man's Name Secret
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. -- A federal judge on Tuesday declined a request from the ACLU to stop the Omaha World-Herald from naming an atheist who sued over a Ten Commandments monument displayed in a Plattsmouth park. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said there was no proof that putting the restraint on the newspaper was appropriate. Ten Commandments monument has been in the city park for 39 years since 1965.

Commandments going up soon in Henry County
Henry Herald
By placing six historical documents alongside a posting of the Ten Commandments in the county courthouse, Henry County leaders are hoping to avoid a lawsuit. Though no suit has been filed, county commissioners passed a resolution Monday to hang framed copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Magna Carta alongside a donated copy of the Ten Commandments.

DeWeese wants Commandments back in his courtroom frame
Mansfield News Journal, OH
MANSFIELD -- The battle continues here over a judge's decision to hang the Ten Commandments in a large, gilded frame on his courtroom wall. Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese was forced to remove the display after a June 2002 decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen O'Malley in Cleveland. In July, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth District upheld the ruling 2-1 that displaying the Commandments violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Attorneys for DeWeese continue to appeal the ruling and have asked the full court to consider the matter. "It's very difficult to get a rehearing, but we are hopeful because the dissenting opinion was very articulate," DeWeese said. "They started to recognize some of the free-speech arguments."

More courts hearing Commandment battles
USA TODAY
Less than a year after a federal judge ordered that a 2 1/2-ton Ten Commandments monument be removed from Alabama's state courts building, legal battles have sprung up across the nation between civil-liberties groups who are targeting similar monuments and governments that are determined to display them. Two dozen lawsuits -- including one heard Wednesday by a federal court in St. Louis -- that allege that such monuments amount to an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion are in play in state and federal courts, say lawyers who monitor such cases.

Court hears arguments in Ten Commandments case
Omaha World Herald
ST. LOUIS -- A Ten Commandments monument in Plattsmouth is simply a gift from a prominent civic group, not an endorsement of a religious way of life, an attorney representing the town told the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But a lawyer representing an atheist from Plattsmouth, Neb., argued Wednesday that the 5-foot-tall granite monument is "ample evidence of a Christian purpose." The full appeals court in St. Louis heard the case after vacating an earlier ruling by a three-judge appeals court panel. The panel had backed the finding of U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Lincoln, Neb., that the monument violated the constitutional separation of church and state and "conveys a message that Christianity and Judaism are favored religions." The appeals court ruling isn't expected for several weeks.

Ten Commandments monument battle goes before the judge
The Salt Lake Tribune
A white picket fence surrounds natural stones, a few trees and a Ten Commandments monolith. Duchesne City hopes this scene in Roy Park - along with a sign saying the small plot in the park is now private property - will end a federal lawsuit filed by the Salt Lake City-based Summum religion. But Summum founder Corky Ra wants his religion's "Seven Aphorisms" monument to reside within the park, too. If the city can sell the local Cole family a 10-by-15-foot plot for their Biblical monument, he wants a piece of city land for his.

Most in Ala. favor Ten Comm. displays
BP News, TN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A majority of people in Alabama strongly support the public display of monuments to the Ten Commandments, a new poll has found. An "Ask Alabama" poll conducted by Auburn University’s Center for Governmental Services found that 54 percent "strongly support" the display of monuments to the Ten Commandments in public or government buildings. Fifteen percent said they "mildly support" such displays, and just 19 percent either strongly or mildly oppose them.

`Ten Commandments' Judge Tells Congress to Curb Judicial Power
Religion News Service
Washington -- Roy Moore, the former Alabama chief justice known for his public display of the Ten Commandments, made his case Monday (Sept. 13) for a law that would forbid federal judges from ruling on cases about government displays of religion. Moore spoke to a House subcommittee and was backed by Reps. Spencer Bachus and Robert Aderholt, both Republicans from Alabama. It was the second congressional hearing on the subject since June, but supporters said Monday that although they've asked, no votes are scheduled.

Commissioners pass on Ten Commandments resolution
Washington Daily News, NC
A fiery war of religious words ignited passions Monday night during the Beaufort County commissioners' regular monthly meeting, as talk of Muslims, Christians, atheists, elections and the Ten Commandments stole a substantial chunk of public time from business items. Reading from a prepared statement, Cayton said, "While our founders provided for freedom to practice religion, they never intended to trust their dearest rights to someone who had no religion at all, or to someone whose religion was different than their own. They knew that it would be highly unlikely to end up with a collection of infidels in office unless the electorate themselves became infidels." Amid discussion of the issue, Republican Commissioner Hood Richardson made a motion to approve the resolution. His motion did not win a second, however, and, therefore, "died." Richardson exhorted the other commissioners to vote for the resolution and teased the board's three Democratic ministers, David Moore, Jerry Langley and Robert Cayton. "We have three ministers on this board. Let's see how strong your faith is," he said, scoring applause from his supporters attending Monday's session.

Judge Roy Moore appears before Congress
White House Shows No Support For Justice Roy Moore or the Constitution Restoration Act
The Decatur Daily, AL
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore contends judges have overstepped their authority in religious expression cases, but his bid to reverse the trend continues to move slowly at best, despite his personal pleas to Congress. Making his second appearance before Congress in three months, Moore on Monday defended the Constitution Restoration Act, which he helped write, before a House Judiciary Committee panel on courts, the Internet and intellectual property. With a divided Congress and no indication of support from the White House, it's unclear how soon — if ever — lawmakers could act on his plan. There is virtually no chance of passage this year with a crowded legislative calendar and only weeks to go in the session. Moore says judges have no right to make laws abridging an acknowledgment of God.

In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Monday (Scroll down to bottom of page), Moore said he was disappointed the Republican Party didn't include stronger language on the acknowledgment of God in drafting its platform at the national convention earlier this month (Read: GOP the Godless party). Despite this and a mixed reception from lawmakers, he said he senses the movement is gaining steam. "I think it's moving on its own," Moore said. "Nobody else is pushing this. The reason it does have momentum is simply because it's truth, and people are starting to wake up to the truth."

Educator in school, religion dispute ousted
News-Leader.com
Humansville -- Greg Thompson said a short prayer Wednesday night, and then told reporters his seven-year tenure as Humansville's superintendent of schools is officially over. Thompson said his termination was finalized during a closed session called by the school board to discuss personnel matters and legal issues, namely a federal lawsuit challenging Thompson's decision to display a plaque with the Ten Commandments on a school wall. Shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday, the board voted to go into executive session and district attorney Jay Kirksey escorted reporters to the parking lot outside Humansville High School. When he walked out of the school about 20 minutes later, Thompson said he's holding firm to his Christian beliefs and won't be signing a settlement agreement awarding plaintiff Carrie Roat $45,000. "I don't believe anyone deserves a penny for something like that," said Thompson, who was suspended by the board without pay in August.

Several Rally Around Ten Commandments Monument
NBC13.com, AL
Christians Want Return To Fundamental Beliefs
LAKE CHARLES, La. -- The controversial monument of the Ten Commandments from Alabama was in Lake Charles, La., Wednesday. School children and members of several Christian churches rallied at Veterans Park where the Ten Commandments monument arrived. The monument is now a symbol for those who want a return to the fundamental beliefs of those who founded our country. Darrell White is a former city judge from Baton Rouge who says the judiciary system has distorted the language of the constitution. “We have forgotten what the constitution actually says and we rely more what lawyers wearing robes say about it,” White said. “We need each one of us to study what the document says.”

Poll: Alabama voters still support Ten Commandments monuments
Times Daily, AL
A new poll shows more than two-thirds of Alabamians support public displays of the Ten Commandments, though almost as many say the issue championed by former Chief Justice Roy Moore has received too much attention. Fifty-four percent of poll respondents said they "strongly support" Ten Commandments displays, while another 15 percent said they "mildly support" such displays. Nineteen percent were opposed to the displays. The poll of 609 voting-age Alabama residents was conducted by telephone in June. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Alabama Chief Justice Joins Georgia Commandments Fight
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA
WINDER, Ga. -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has joined Barrow County officials who are fighting a lawsuit challenging a Ten Commandments plaque in the courthouse. Moore, who was suspended for refusing a federal judge's order to remove a Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building, spoke Thursday night at a $50-a-plate dinner to raise money to oppose the ACLU lawsuit. "Christians are engaged in a spiritual battle," Moore told an estimated 400 people. "We do need an army and every one of you are in it." Moore said the issue is about more than whether the Ten Commandments can be displayed in public buildings. "The question is, can the state acknowledge God?," he said.

Ten Commandments monument coming to Oklahoma City
NewsOK.com
Metro area residents will have a chance to get a close-up view of the Ten Commandments monument removed earlier this year from the Alabama Judicial Building amid a controversy over separation of church and state. The monument is being displayed nationwide as part of the Veterans Faith and Freedom National Tour organized by a Houston-based group called American Veterans in Domestic Defense. Army veteran Hollis Summers of Maynardville, Tenn., said the monument will be at two metro locations during the Labor Day weekend. Summers, a member of the veterans' group, said the tour will end in Washington, where its organizers hope to find a place to house it permanently. "If we don't, we'll build our own," he said. Summers said the monument has received positive responses thus far, eliciting various reactions from crowds. "Some people want to get up there and pray with it and take pictures of it," he said. "Some cry with it. We've seen everything except anyone trying to harm it."

A Ten Commandments Rally to be held in a state near you:

Sept 5,6,7 Oklahoma City, OK
Sept 8 Lake Charles, LA
Sept 9 Denham Springs, LA
Sept 10 Slidell, LA
Sept 11-12 Hattisburg, MS
Sept 25 Spartenburg, SC
Oct 1 West Palm Beach, Fl
Oct 3 Coral Gables, FL
Oct 9 Lakeland, FL
Oct 15-23 Washington D.C. Area

Judge Roy Moore seeks reinstatement
in appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
Christian Examiner
WASHINGTON — Judge Roy Moore has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an Alabama judicial ruling that removed him as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The appeal was filed July 29, Moore and his legal team announced at a news conference Aug. 2 in Montgomery. Two key issues are raised in the appeal, according to the Foundation for Moral Law, a Montgomery-based organization defending Moore and seeking to advance his views on constitutional issues.

Moore to Release Book in March on the
True Meaning of Separation of Church
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Chief Justice Roy Moore said Thursday he will release a book next year explaining why he believes acknowledgments of God by public officials - such as his Ten Commandments monument - are both legal and necessary. The book, titled "So Help Me God!", is set to be released in March 2005 by Nashville, Tenn.-based Broadman and Holman Publishers. Financial terms of the deal were not released. "It is time that the American people awake to the true meaning of separation of church and state and our unique relationship to God as a nation," Moore said in a statement.

Chief Justice Roy Moore To Speak At Barrow Fund-Raiser
Gwinnett Daily Post, GA.
WINDER -- Almost a year ago, Barrow County embarked on a legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union over a Ten Commandments poster at the county’s courthouse. Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore faced a similar battle. On Aug. 21, 2003, Moore refused to remove a 5,300-pound granite Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. A day later, he was suspended from office, and in November, he was removed from the bench.

Teacher Quits After Refusing To Remove Commandments
KAAL, MN.
MASON CITY, Iowa -- A five-year middle school band teacher in Mason City has resigned after refusing to remove religious items, including a poster of the Ten Commandments, from his classroom. Luke Miller said the poster, as ``well as a few other items'' of a religious nature were at the center of the discussion between him and district officials. The 35-year-old Miller said he was asked by the school administration to remove the items and he refused. He then resigned on August 20th. Superintendent Keith Sersland would not comment on the situation, except to confirm that Miller ``voluntarily resigned.''

Ten Commandments stone tours East Grand Forks
Grand Forks Herald, ND.
The 5,280-pound monument to the Ten Commandments that got Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore knocked off the bench by a federal judge was brought to East Grand Forks on Tuesday in a rally for American values, Christianity and warnings against the judiciary. Mark Skogerboe, a lay Lutheran pastor from New Hope, Minn., who previously lived in East Grand Forks and Karlstad, Minn., is a leader of the group that is hauling the huge granite edifice around the country. "America is in big trouble," Skogerboe preached from the back of the rented truck to a crowd of about 60 people in Sherlock Park. "Let us repair to the standards the founders gave us, like the Ten Commandments and the Word of God," said Skogerboe.

Commandments Tours Fargo as Lawsuit Moves Ahead
Bismarck Tribune, ND.
FARGO -- A touring monument of the Ten Commandments stopped here Tuesday as lawyers moved ahead with a lawsuit opposing a similar marker outside Fargo's City Hall. A small group of supporters gathered at the Fargo Civic Center for a rally featuring the 5,280-pound Ten Commandments monument owned by Roy Moore, the former Alabama chief justice ousted for refusing to remove the monument from the state courthouse. "I don't think people rec-ognize our freedom is under assault," said the Rev. Mark Skogerboe, of New Hope, Minn., one of the rally's organizers. "Because the loss of freedom is gradual, one court decision at a time." Skogerboe, who represents Texas-based Christian group Vision America, said one of the organization's goals is to make sure Fargo's Ten Commandments monument stays put.

Fargo's Ten Commandments case to go forward
Fargo Forum
Fargo's once-stalled Ten Commandments case is back on track, no longer at the mercy of a similar and ongoing case in Nebraska. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson has decided that plaintiffs pushing to have the Fargo Ten Commandments monument removed should not have to wait indefinitely for the Plattsmouth, Neb., case to be settled. Assistant Fargo City Attorney Patty Roscoe said the city -- the defendant in the case -- hoped the final outcome of the Plattsmouth case could stand as a guide for Fargo. Both cities fall under the jurisdiction of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys from each side in the Fargo suit will talk via phone today to figure out a timeline for the case now that it's moving forward. Their meeting coincides with the arrival in Fargo of a traveling, 5,280 pound Ten Commandments monument -- the same one recently removed amid controversy from the judicial building in Montgomery, Ala. As part of a nationwide tour organized by American Veterans Standing for God and Country, the monument will be carried throughout several states over the next few months for a series of "God Bless America" rallies.

Humansville School Chief Out of a Job
Commandments dispute ends with Greg Thompson turning in his keys.
Greg Thompson, the Humansville superintendent whose Ten Commandments plaque sparked a federal lawsuit and constitutional controversy, says he has cleaned out his office and turned in his key. The small Polk County district's school board put Thompson on leave with pay Monday, days after he was put on leave without pay because he wouldn't follow federal law regarding church-state separation. His contract calls for 60 days of leave with pay while he reconsiders, but he says he'll stick to his convictions.

Moore to appear at Barrow Ten Commandments rally
WINDER - Chief Justice Roy Moore will be in Winder, Georgia next month to help raise money for Barrow County's defense of a Ten Commandments lawsuit. The rally will be held September 2.

School Official Put On Leave for Posting Commandments
Springfield News Leader
HUMANSVILLE, Mo. -- Humansville superintendent Greg Thompson, whose posting of the Ten Commandments on a school wall brought on a highly publicized federal lawsuit, has been put on administrative leave without pay. Thompson's display of the Ten Commandments has drawn widespread support from the town's residents — and elicited support from former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted from office after a battle over displaying a monument containing the biblical passages. The board, in an Aug. 11 closed meeting, voted 6-1 to place Thompson on administrate leave without pay immediately and remove his authority, according to the documents. Lawyers for the district and plaintiff Carrie Roat have had disagreements over the settlement of the case, which hasn't been finalized or approved by the judge. The tentative agreement would stipulate that Roat and her son would drop their claims against the district and that, in turn, the district would pay Roat $45,000 and comply with federal law.

School Board Mulls Fate of Humansville superintendent
Greg Thompson won't agree to not display religious symbols in school.
HUMANSVILLE, Mo. -- The Humansville School District superintendent is waiting to see whether he will keep his job. Greg Thompson, who fought to keep the Ten Commandments displayed in his school, is on leave without pay. The school board suspended Thompson in a closed session on Aug. 11 because he wouldn’t agree to abide by court rulings that prohibit the use of religious symbols in schools for non-educational purposes. The board met in another closed session on Monday evening. If it took a vote on Thompson’s employment in that session, the board has 72 hours to announce it. Thompson says the school board is protecting itself after the district settled a lawsuit last month with the mother of a Humansville student over displaying the Ten Commandments plaque in the cafeteria. Carrie Roat received $45,000 and an agreement that the district wouldn’t display religious symbols after she sued the district in federal court in March.

Georgia Judge Wants Historical Display In Courthouse
NorthFulton.com, GA
Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley wants to install a courthouse display of historic documents – including the Ten Commandments –he said are used as foundations of law. Bagley, chief judge of the Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit, asked for support at the Aug. 9 Board of Commissioners meeting. He said the display would be intended to educate jurors about their role and importance. Ken Jarrard, county staff attorney, said the issue would be covered under U.S. Constitutional law rather than Georgia law, so any precedents set in Alabama would apply to Forsyth County. He said he believed Bagley approached the display correctly, as an historical display, and it should pass Constitutional muster.

Boise's Ten Commandments Supporters Turn in Signatures
Idaho Statesman
The Keep the Commandments Coalition turned in 18,507 signatures to the Boise city clerk's office Friday — nearly 10,000 more than needed to put their issue on the ballot. At a City Hall rally before they turned in the petitions, the Rev. Bryan Fischer challenged the City Council to simply enact the initiative without even holding the election. If the council refuses to do that, it should hold the election, the coalition co-chair said. "The Ten Commandments were removed by a legislative act. They can be returned by a legislative act," said Fischer, backed by coalition members holding signs saying "Let the people vote" and "Mr. Mayor, support democracy."

City Adopts Policy for Monuments
Daily Herald
Pleasant Grove city officials say a recently adopted policy, which will regulate where monuments and plaques are placed, has nothing to do with a controversial lawsuit that could remove the city's Ten Commandments monument currently on display in a city park. The new policy regulates where, and if, donated monuments, plaques, displays, permanent signs and structures are placed on city property.

Faithful Flock To See Ala. Ten Commandments
Denver Post
Pueblo - Alice Laverne Gearhart carefully climbed the five steps to the bed of the 18-foot-long truck and stood in awe at a hip-high slab of granite that ignited a firestorm of controversy over the separation of church and state last year. The 5,300-pound stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments, a temporary gift from former Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, was a rare treat for the 74-year-old Gearhart and some five dozen other Pueblo residents who gathered in a church parking lot to view the monument and openly proclaim their religious beliefs. "We admire his conviction," Gearhart said. "(Moore) is a brave man to fight the system." The visitors stood quietly Saturday as they waited to climb on back of the truck and pose for photos next to the monument. Some held their arms towards the heavens during opening prayers. The monument will be on display at the Circle Drive Baptist Church in Colorado Springs from noon until 1 p.m. today. It will be on display at Focus on the Family beginning at 11 a.m. Monday.

Hanover Ready to Act if Court OKs Sale
Evening Sun
If the York County Orphans' Court rules that Hanover Borough can sell a 15-square-foot parcel of land surrounding the Ten Commandments monument in Wirt Park, borough council will be ready. At Wednesday night's meeting, council voted to approve final plans for a subdivision, contingent on the court ruling in the borough's favor. The subdivided area would surround the monument on the side of the park facing High Street. Under the plan, the area would be enclosed by a gate, and trees would be planted on either side of the monument. Also, a brick area in front of the monument would lead from the sidewalk to the monument.

Chief Justice Roy Moore: U.S. was founded on belief
Meridian Star
The judge who attracted nationwide attention last year when he defied a federal order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse spoke Wednesday in Meridian. Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, says it is hypocritical to ban governmental promotion of religion when the U.S. Constitution recognizes God. Moore said prohibiting the acknowledgement of God in a courthouse — or in any house — is a threat to the security of America and its people. “It undermines the very moral basis upon which our society was founded,” Moore said.

Group transporting Ten Commandments statue around U.S.
Mitchell Daily Republic
The Ten Commandments monument placed in front of the Alabama state judicial building created a nationwide stir when it was removed last November by a federal judge’s order. On Wednesday morning, the controversial 2.6-ton granite monument made a brief stop in Mitchell at the I-90 Truck Haven while en route to the Sturgis motorcycle rally. American Veterans in Domestic Defense, a Christian veterans’ organization based in Houston, Texas, is transporting the stone sculpture around the United States as part of a campaign to have the monument permanently displayed in Washington, D.C.

Press Release from: Jim Cabaniss, President of American Veterans Standing For God and Country, a project of American Veterans In Domestic Defense

Most Americans remember the scene at the Alabama State Supreme Court Building on August 27, 2003.

On that day, federal authorities instructed the removal of the 2.5 ton Ten Commandment Monument from the beautiful rotunda to a dark storage closet. This made most Americans angry.

Today we are moving the Monument out of the darkness into the light. The American Veterans Standing For God and Country have reached an agreement with Chief Justice Roy Moore to take possession of this beautiful monument and display it across America from city to city on its way to our Nation's Capital. Most Veterans have great respect for Chief Justice Moore. He is a Veteran, a West Point Graduate, a great Constitutional and Biblical Scholar.

He stood on his oath, even to the point of giving up his job as the top Judicial Authority in the State of Alabama. We know there must be something wrong in America when an appointed federal judge has the power to tell a duly elected State Supreme Court Judge that he cannot acknowledge God and thus fulfill his oath of office.

Starting July 31, Veterans will support rallies by displaying this Ten Commandment Monument from coast to coast. Those Veterans wishing to join in this cause may post their comments and offer their assistance at www.StandingforGod.org or by calling American Veterans in Houston at 281-591-4705. To host a rally contact us.

Isaiah 33:22 “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us.”

Chief Justice Moore Defends His Stand
WTOK TV-11
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore joined in the Wednesday night prayer and worship service at Evangel Temple in Meridian. During his visit, Judge Moore also visited WTOK for a taping of its public affairs program, On the Record. The discussion centered on the Ten Commandments monument which he placed in the Alabama judicial building and has since been removed.

Monument barred in Ala. is rolling into Colorado
Denver Post
The 2 1/2-ton Ten Commandments monument, which set off a church-state separation feud last year when Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore tried and failed to keep it in his courthouse rotunda, is on a national tour that will take it to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and metro Denver in the coming days. The Houston group American Veterans in Domestic Defense won Moore's approval to remove the massive chunk of granite from a closet, where it had been stored after a court ordered its removal.

Alabama Monument in Black Hills
Rapid City Journal
RAPID CITY - The granite Ten Commandments monument that was in the Alabama state judicial building until it was removed by order of a federal judge, will be in Rapid City tonight, Aug. 11, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center west parking lot, according to Bob Ellis of Rapid City, a coordinator of the event. An all-night prayer vigil is planned. The monument will be taken to Sturgis on Thursday, Aug. 12.

Touring Ten Commandments spark fervor at Franklin rally
Tennessean
Before stepping onto a flatbed truck to gaze upon a 5,300-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments, Willia Davis said she believed there was ''spiritual warfare'' going on in the country. ''They took this monument out of a courthouse. They've taken prayer out of schools, and we can't even say a blessing in public anymore,'' Davis said. ''Even the government is turning against God and taking our rights away from us.''

Chief Justice Roy Moore to speak in Mississippi at Evangel Temple
The Meridian Star
“It’s time we as a nation wake up and see what godly men do,” said the Rev. Mike Boles, pastor of Evangel Temple. “It’s time for us to pray for and support people who are standing up for the things that are right, that are godly.” On Wednesday, August 11, at 7 p.m., Chief Justice Roy Moore will be guest speaker at Evangel Temple. The topic has been left to Moore’s discretion. “We’re hoping he will energize Christian people to find out where politicians stand on issues of importance, and to get out and vote,” he said.

Southern Heritage Group Rallies on Square
Henry Herald
In a show of solidarity for Henry County commissioners' decision to post a Ten Commandments display in the county courthouse, a southern heritage group held a rally on the town square in McDonough Saturday. The display has not been posted but commissioners resolved to do so last month. Judy and Jerry Leatherman came from Stockbridge to attend the rally. "I want to support the Ten Commandments and make sure everybody knows it's in the courthouse," Jerry Leatherman said. "Every county and every citizen needs to support it." Jerry Leatherman said he is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Roy Moore Says He May Run Again
WSFA TV-12
Ousted from office and still after his old job, Roy Moore still has some political fight left in him. On Thursday, he was in Washington D.C. speaking to college students about the first amendment. But first, he appeared live on C-SPAN, and that is where he was asked about his future political plans. Moore said something we haven't heard since he was removed from office. When asked by the news anchor on C-SPAN, "Are you planning on running again?" Moore said, "Well, if I must. I must." Moore did not elaborate on that statement. He is currently appealing his removal from office to the United States Supreme Court.

Follow 10 Commandments to Casey Jones
Jackson Sun
Controversial monument's tour is in Jackson today
A nationally known statue sits atop a rented flat bed truck as it awaits its next move through West Tennessee to make it to Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis by the 8 a.m. Sunday service. The controversial Ten Commandments Monument has made its way from Montgomery, Ala., to the Casey Jones Village in Jackson, where it will be on display until 1 p.m. today.

Roy Moore Seeks Reinstatement in Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- Judge Roy Moore has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an Alabama judicial ruling that removed him as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The appeal was filed July 29, according to Moore and his legal team at a news conference Aug. 2 in Montgomery. Two key issues are raised in the appeal, according to the Foundation for Moral Law, a Montgomery-based organization defending Moore and seeking to advance his views on constitutional issues.

Moore Enters Final Legal Round
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is down to the final round of a heavyweight fight with the court system regarding his removal from office in mid-November of last year. Attorney Phillip L. Jauregui announced today that Moore's legal team filed a petition Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider hearing his appeal. The filing came just before a 90-day time limit ran out. Moore and his attorneys contend that Moore’s removal as chief justice was unconstitutional.

Foundation Asks U.S. Supreme Court to
Reverse Chief Justice Moore's Removal (Scroll Down)

Foundation for Moral Law

Roy S. Moore v. Judicial Inquiry Commission of the State of Alabama

Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary on supposed "ethics" grounds for refusing to stop acknowledging God, has asked the United States Supreme Court to hear his case and reverse the Alabama courts that have kept him out of office.

The petition to the Supreme Court [read it here PDF format] was prepared by attorneys here at the Foundation for Moral Law, Inc., as well as Herb Titus and Phillip Jauregui, two of the attorneys who defended the Ten Commandments monument in federal court. Chief Justice Moore argued in the petition that (1) the Alabama courts violated the First Amendment by forcing Chief Justice Moore to choose between acknowledging God and his elected position, and (2) Chief Justice Moore was denied due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment because the Alabama courts refused to hear his defense that the federal court order demanding that he remove the Ten Commandments monument was itself unlawful and not ethically binding on him. The Foundation hopes that the Supreme Court hears the case and restores justice to the former Chief Justice.

Ten Commandments Voter Initiative

WASHINGTON -- The nation's first voter initiative on the public display of the Ten Commandments to be held in Boise, Idaho this fall.

Religious rights and freedom advocates call the Boise initiative an exciting and innovative approach in confronting the loss of religious speech and expression in the public square.

Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Washington, DC-based Christian Defense Coalition states, "The citizens of Boise are giving hope to millions of Americans who have become discouraged by the public loss of religious expression and the tyranny of activist judges. It is my hope that scores of communities across America will follow the example of Boise and hold similar voter initiatives on the Ten Commandments."

Brandi Swindell, Co-director of the Keep the Commandments Coalition Boise, comments, "We are now taking the debate concerning the public display of the Ten Commandments out of the hands of judges, the courts and politicians and placing it back in the hands of the American people where it belongs."

Group plans Commandments rally
A group of Southern heritage promoters hopes the town square will fill with proponents of public display of the 10 Commandments for a public rally scheduled for Saturday. The League of the South is planning a rally on the McDonough Square to show county leaders support for their decision to display the controversial poster in the county courthouse, despite some outcry from others in the community.

Ten Commandments’ Tour Visits Franklin Tenn. Wednesday
Review Appeal
Walter Glenn of Fairview is a man with a mission: To see that the Ten Commandments are given public honor by being placed on public land for display both here in Tennessee and all across the country. Glenn is local coordinator for a Ten Commandments’ rally to be held here Wednesday, Aug. 4, first at The Factory in Franklin from 1-3 p.m., and then at Friendship United Methodist Church on Highway 96 West near Freedom Middle School. In fact, the Wednesday rally will feature the monument that started the whole ruckus, the two-and-one-half ton structure that Justice Moore had built at his own expense.

Ten Commandments Tennessee Rally Schedule

Sunday Aug. 1 - Greenville - County Court House, Main Street 3:00-4:30 Broadcase Live at www.crusaderadio.com

Monday Aug 2 Oak Ridge - Oak Ridge Mall 11:30 - 1:00 A.M. EST Aug 2 - Maynardville, behind High School 6:00- 7:30 PM EST

Tuesday Aug. 3 Cookeville - Willow Tree Shopping Center 12 Noon - 1:30 CST

Wednesday Aug. 4 - Franklin 1-5 pm CST 1 - 3 PM The Factory (shopping center), West Main street, speeches inside 3 - 5 PM Franklin Friendship Methodist Church, west on Highway 96

Thursday Aug. 5 - Dover - 1:30 - 3:00 CST Ballfield

Friday Aug 6 - Sommerville (Fayette County) 7:00 - 8:30 PM Warren Community Church

Saturday Aug 7 Savannah 10:00 - 11:30 Piggly Wiggly Parking Lot

Sunday Aug 8 - Memphis - Bellevue Baptist Church - 8:30- 10:00 AM, Adrian Rogers Church Lawton - Clear Creek Baptist Church 1:30-3:00 PM Memphis First Assembly of God 6:00 - 7:30 PM

For Tennessee Rally information call: June Griffin, Tennessee Coordinator at (423) 775-0774. Ten Commandment Rallies are planned nation wide, beginning in Tennessee during the week of July 31 through August 8. For rallies outside of Tennessee, please check updates at www.StandingforGod.org Web site will not be updated again until Tuesday, August 2. If you would like to host a rally, email info@avidd.org.

Henry County Georgia Votes To Display Ten Commandments
Southern Party of Georgia
The Ten Commandments were adopted by the Henry County Board of Commissioners to be publicly displayed in the county courthouse -- a gift from the HC League of the South. This was the second Atlanta area county in recent weeks to do so; and, apparently, it is the one that the media has chosen to cover. Henry County is the fourth fastest-growing county in America and one of the larger counties by population in Georgia. The people of Henry County are abuzz about this in their excitement of the Board's unanimous decision... all the more reason that we should take this issue to EVERY county in Georgia immediately.

Alabama Ten Commandments Monument on Display
Chattanooga Times Free Press
DAYTON, Tenn. — The Ten Commandments monument that cost Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore his job will be on display Saturday as the first stop on a cross-country trek, tour organizers said Tuesday. The 5,300-pound monument, removed from the Alabama Judicial Building, will be on display at the Rhea County Courthouse, home of the 1925 Scopes Trial. It also will visit Rhea County High School and the Sequatchie County Courthouse in Dunlap, Tenn.

Activists Ask Appeals Court to Hear Ten Commandments Case Again
Mansfield News Journal
CINCINNATI -- Activists asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reconsider its ruling forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments in an Ohio judge's courtroom. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on July 14 that the display in the courtroom of Richland County Common Pleas Court Judge James DeWeese violates the Constitution. On Wednesday, the American Center for Law and Justice -- an advocacy group representing DeWeese -- asked the full appeals court to set aside the ruling and reconsider the case.

Got a bid for the 10 Commandments?
Newsday
Looking for a gift for that hard-to-please someone? How about an original pair of "The Ten Commandments" tablets from the 1956 biblical epic starring Charlton Heston? The tablets, one of four pairs that are believed to have been made for the Cecil B. DeMille classic, will be auctioned live on eBay on Friday as part of a massive Hollywood garage sale. Bids start at $40,000.

Lauren Kennedy to Be Part of Ten Commandments Musical
Playbill
Lauren Kennedy, most recently on Broadway as Fantine in Les Misérables, will be part of the cast of the new musical The Ten Commandments: The Spectacle Musical. Kennedy's official website says that the actress be among the cast of the musical starring film actor Val Kilmer as Moses. The stagework, presented by BCBGMaxAzria Entertainment (founded by fashion designer Max Azria and Charles Cohen) and 7Art, is set to begin performances at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California Sept. 18 and open Sept. 27.

Chief Justice Roy Moore threatened by the GOP
Michael A. Peroutka
A recent Associated Press story by Jay Reeves has reported, accurately, that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore and I have appeared together at several meetings in different states. In reaction to this fact, in this AP story, Alabama Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors is paraphrased as saying that former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore “could jeopardize his right to run as a Republican in state elections” if he endorses candidates who are not Republicans (such as myself). I am disappointed by Mr. Connors’ narrow-minded, anti-free speech, political intolerance. His threatening of Alabama’s former Supreme Court Chief Justice is blatantly hypocritical since his state party’s “Republican Oath” says, among other things, that “one of those principles worth retaining” is to have “an outlook broad enough to accommodate…varying points of view.”

Ten Commandments Controversy Moves West
Fox News
EVERETT, Wash. — The city of Everett is the new battleground in the debate over the Ten Commandments and where to draw the line in the separation of church and state. A granite monument of the Ten Commandments is tucked among some bushes in front of the Everett Police Station, along with more visible World War I and II memorials standing near the same corner of the building. Despite some recent court rulings that have gone against other similar markers on public property, Everett is fighting the lawsuit, claiming its monument has historical importance. It was donated to the city 45 years ago.

Duluth's Ten Commandments Monument Moved
KDLH TV 3
Early Thursday the Ten Commandments Monument made their way to an undisclosed storage location outside Duluth. The monument will stay there until Steve Peterson of Save Our Ten Commandments secures a place to display it. He hopes to place it in Canal Park on a small parcel of land across the street from Little Angies Restaurant.

Judge Moore update focus of Eagle Forum
Alamogordo Daily News, NM
The Ten Commandments haven’t gone away for thousands of years. Those who support them aren’t going anywhere, either. Paragon Executive Director GB Oliver III will update Eagle Forum-New Mexico members, on Tuesday, on Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore. Moore spoke last week at Paragon’s Freedom 21 conference in Reno, Nev. He has also appeared in Alamogordo at an Eagle Forum/Paragon “Sovereignty and Your Rights Seminar.” Moore said America’s traditional “way of life is under attack ... from liberals.” God’s law, he said, is “found in the Ten Commandments, and the U.S. Constitution as well as the amendments are words ... defined by law, given by God.”

Judge Roy Moore Addresses Conference,
Calls for Protection of Freedom of Religion
Axcess Business News, NV
Reno NV - Judge Roy Moore who defied a federal court ruling and lost his elected position as Chief Justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, addressed the opening session of the 5th annual Freedom21 Conference being held in Reno, Nevada. The judge remained defiant, saying, “The acknowledgement of God affects everyone” in areas that include "the right to life, property rights, and freedom itself." The conference has attracted several hundred conservatively oriented individuals and addresses topics that include national sovereignty, the United Nations, property rights, environmentalism, and Second Amendment rights, among others.

Ten Commandments Monument Moved
from Courthouse Storage for Tour
By Kyle Wingfield / The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A Ten Commandments monument that became a landmark in the debate over religion's place in government was hauled away from its storage room in the state courthouse Monday, bound for a summer road trip to the nation's capital. The 5,280-pound marker was brought out of the building by a veterans' group nearly a year after it was moved from the rotunda. A federal judge had ruled the prominent public display amounted to an unconstitutional promotion of religion by government. It was placed by crane on a flatbed truck and driven away under police escort to an undisclosed location. The truck driver said he was headed north toward Tennessee, where the tour's first rally will be held July 31 in Dayton.

Press Release from: Jim Cabaniss, President of American Veterans Standing For God and Country, a project of American Veterans In Domestic Defense

Most Americans remember the scene at the Alabama State Supreme Court Building on August 27, 2003.

On that day, federal authorities instructed the removal of the 2.5 ton Ten Commandment Monument from the beautiful rotunda to a dark storage closet. This made most Americans angry.

Today we are moving the Monument out of the darkness into the light. The American Veterans Standing For God and Country have reached an agreement with Chief Justice Roy Moore to take possession of this beautiful monument and display it across America from city to city on its way to our Nation's Capital. Most Veterans have great respect for Chief Justice Moore. He is a Veteran, a West Point Graduate, a great Constitutional and Biblical Scholar.

He stood on his oath, even to the point of giving up his job as the top Judicial Authority in the State of Alabama. We know there must something wrong in America when an appointed federal judge has the power to tell a duly elected State Supreme Court Judge that he cannot acknowledge God and thus fulfill his oath of office.

Starting July 31, Veterans will support rallies by displaying this Ten Commandment Monument from coast to coast. Those Veterans wishing to join in this cause may post their comments and offer their assistance at www.StandingforGod.org or by calling American Veterans in Houston at 281-591-4705. To host a rally contact us.

Veterans Will Take Display On Tour
By Thom Marshall / Houston Chronicle
A Houston-based veterans' organization plans to tour the country with a religious monument that cost an Alabama chief justice his job last year when he defied a federal order to take it from display in a public building. "We have signed an agreement with Judge Roy Moore," Jim Cabaniss, president of American Veterans In Domestic Defense, said Friday. Moore will retain ownership of his massive Ten Commandments monument but is lending it to the veterans' group for the tour, Cabaniss said. Cabaniss said he and other veterans in the organization will be in Alabama on Monday "to move it out of the dark closet in the Alabama State Supreme Court Building and bring it to the light of day."

Justice's Banished Monument to Tour U.S.
By Kyle Wingfield / The Associated Press Writer
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A veterans group, with the blessing of ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, said it will take his Ten Commandments monument on a national "God Bless America" tour. The 5,280-pound granite monument, out of public view for nearly a year after Moore lost a court fight over its display, will be hauled to rallies for three months by the group American Veterans Standing for God and Country.

10 Commandments Monument Going On Tour
LOS ANGELES -- A 2½-ton granite monument of the 10 Commandments that was at the center of a court fight in Alabama will be hauled to a series of rallies for three months. The sponoring group is called American Veterans Standing for God and Country. The group's president said the organization is neither a church nor a military movement. The group is made up of veterans "taking a stand for what is good for our children and grandchildren," he said.

Roy Moore Appearing With Constitution Party Presidential Candidate
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been appearing with a third-party candidate for president, a move that could endanger his standing with the Alabama GOP. Moore has made a series of speeches nationally with Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael A. Peroutka, a Maryland attorney running on a platform that includes outlawing abortion, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and making America a Bible-based republic.

Moore Criticizes Play That Opens Friday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has criticized a play opening this Friday in Birmingham. The play, entitled “Judge Roy Moore Is Coming To Dinner," is set in Birmingham and deals with the issue of two men who get married and then return to the state. Actor Brian Webber plays the part of Moore who visits the dinner to impart his views on gay marriage and family values. The fictional representation of Moore uses actual words the former chief justice used in a ruling he made in 2002. “This sort of ‘theater’ promoting homosexual marriage is a result of federal activism in our court system,” said Moore in a statement released Tuesday. “Homosexual marriage represents a degradation of our morality and a denigration of our society. In Alabama, it is against the law, and if I have anything to do with it, it will remain against the law.”

Senators Discuss Religion, Federal Authority
On June 8, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution in Washington, D.C. heard arguments from various United States Senators on the immediate need for restrictions to be placed on Supreme Court judges. Among those involved were Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala, and former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore, who was removed from office after refusing a court order to remove the Ten Commandments display from a courthouse. The purpose of the hearing, titled, "Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square," was to establish to the subcommittee that legislation must be sought out to prevent federal courts and its judges from overstepping the appropriate jurisdiction when it comes to matters of religious expression.

Roy Moore Says Ruling Illustrates Need For Federal Legislation
MONGOMERY, Ala. -- Roy Moore is weighing in on today's Supreme Court ruling rejecting a California atheist's challenge to the Pledge of Allegiance. The high court ruled the man couldn't sue over the pledge's reference to God. Moore said the original ruling in the case by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals illustrates the need for Congress to pass a measure curbing the power of federal courts to interfere in the public acknowledgment of God. Moore, in a statement, said the Supreme Court dismissed the case on legality and its decision could result in another challenge to the words "one nation, under God." "If the Constitution Restoration Act 2004, were to be passed in Congress," said Moore. "The federal courts could never again be used to strike down the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. Congress should take action now to save the pledge and other public acknowledgements of God."

Roy Moore Urges Congress to Protect Religious Expression
WASHINGTON — The Alabama chief justice ousted from office for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from his courthouse urged Congress yesterday to make a clear a distinction between government’s legal acknowledgment of religion and illegal promotion of it. Roy Moore repeatedly cited from memory statements by George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson during his testimony as part of a Senate panel discussion on “Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square.” Even that title sparked debate among senators. “I believe in separation of church and state quite strongly, but separation of church and state does not separate this country — and never has and never will — from God,” Moore said.

Candidate endorsed by Roy Moore
beats current justice in primary
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Roy Moore's hand-picked candidate to replace himself as Alabama's chief justice won a tightly contested primary battle June 1 over one of Moore's former colleagues. With the vast majority of the state's precincts reporting, former Moore aide Tom Parker defeated current Justice Jean Brown by a 51-49 percent margin in the state's Republican primary for the chief justice position. Parker will face Democrat Robert Smith in the general election.

He's Not on the Ballot,
but Roy Moore Has a Role in Tuesday's Primary
Tom Parker is used to speaking to crowds. He got plenty of practice as a spokesman for former Chief Justice Roy Moore. Now, Parker wants his own seat on the state Supreme Court. Parker says he never gets tired of being associated with Moore. "No, it's an honor," says Parker. "We had a man who stood for principle over position, paycheck, or even pension," he adds.

Judge throws out lawsuit to restore Moore to bench
MONTGOMERY -- A federal judge dismissed a Christian broadcaster's lawsuit to have Roy Moore reinstated as chief justice. U.S. District Judge Truman Hobbs rejected Kelly McGinley's claim that her federal due process and voting rights were violated when the non-elected state Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from office for ethics violations. Hobbs issued only a one-page order Friday in declining the suit by McGinley, who hosts a radio talk show in Mobile. Her attorney, Jim Zeigler of Mobile, said he would "prayerfully consider" whether to file an appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "The legal options for restoring Judge Moore to the bench are getting slimmer and slimmer," Zeigler said in a statement issued Monday. "It will probably take political action by Alabama voters to return Judge Moore to office."

Alabama Senate passes Ten Commandments amendment
The Alabama Senate reacted to the removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building by passing a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday that calls for their display in public buildings. The 28-0 vote by the Senate sends the proposed constitutional amendment to the House for consideration. If approved by the House, the legislation will go before Alabama voters in the primary election June 1.

Roy Moore-Inspired Bill Limits Federal Courts
A bill pending in both houses of Congress, the "Constitution Restoration Act," would prohibit federal courts from ruling in cases involving government officials who acknowledge God "as the sovereign source of law, liberty or government." The bill, sponsored in the House by Rep Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., and in the Senate by Sen Richard Shelby, R-Ala., was birthed in the aftermath of the ouster of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was sanctioned by the courts for acknowledging God by way of a Ten Commandments monument in the state's judicial building. Moore was on hand in Washington when the bills were introduced last month. Supporters of the bill cite Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which authorizes Congress to limit the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts.

Voter pleads Moore case in U.S. court
A lawsuit seeking the reinstatement of former Chief Justice Roy Moore should be thrown out of federal court, the Alabama attorney general's office argued Thursday. The temporary state Supreme Court, set up to decide on Moore's appeal after the Supreme Court recused itself, heard oral arguments for Moore's appeal last month, but has yet to hand down a decision. Johnny Davis, attorney for the plaintiff Kelly McGinley, countered that since his case raised different issues than those raised in Moore's appeals, it shouldn't be dropped. McGinley contends that the JIC was illegally formed, and therefore its decision in the Moore case should not be binding.

Judge Moore: Acknowledgement of
God was at center of controversy
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The removal of the 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building does not represent a battle to display a religious document, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says. It is a battle over the right Americans have to publicly acknowledge God.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

America the Beautiful, or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride; I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters, Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.

We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core,
Appointing godless Judges who throw reason out the door,
Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God, from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do, but stem this evil tide?

~ Judge Roy Moore


No Decision This Week in Roy Moore Appeal
Court officials said Thursday a decision on Roy Moore's appeal of his ouster as chief justice will not come this week, meaning at least a month will have passed since a fill-in Supreme Court held a hearing on his expulsion. The replacement court has said it would announce its decision on a Friday, the normal day for Supreme Court rulings to be released. But the panel said its verdict would not come this Friday, court spokesman David Williams said. In that case, the earliest date for a verdict would be March 26, though it could come much later.

Ashland University Packed For Judges
ASHLAND -- Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese met his ally in the battle to display the Ten Commandments. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore joined DeWeese in addressing a packed audience Monday night in the Ashland University Convocation Center. They addressed the crowd of more than 1,000 people about the rule of law they are accused of violating. "The law is the highest authority and all men, even the highest officials, are subject to that same law," DeWeese said. "The evolving-constitution doctrine is an unconstitutional doctrine," DeWeese said. Moore then took over the podium: "When a judge puts himself above the rule of law, he becomes a tyrant," Moore said.

Alabama Justice to Speak at Crowley's Ridge
PARAGOULD -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will be the guest speaker at Crowley's Ridge College's annual "Spirit of America" program on April 2. Moore gained national attention for the 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument that he had placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building about six months after taking office in January 2001. It was removed in August 2003, and Moore was suspended without pay then removed from the bench Nov. 14. He is challenging his removal.

Judge Moore Does Not Support Marriage Amendment
Chief Justice Roy Moore does not support an amendment to ban gay marriage. He says renegade courts would cause problems. Moore believes that if marriage is constitutionally defined as between a man and a woman, some judge would allow a man to marry his sister or daughter. He believes a better solution is for Congress to pass the Constitution Restoration Act (PDF Format). This Act would stop courts from forbidding the acknowledgement of God as the basis of law. He says marriage between a man and a woman is what God intended.

Justice Moore Spreads the Word in Northwest
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has a