“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Last week in Alabama, the state Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended and the Ten Commandments were removed from the rotunda in the state judicial building. Now a controversy has been sparked from all sides as to whether Justice Moore was right in his opposition to their removal.
Justice Moore was elected two years ago as chief justice of Alabama. The citizens of Alabama knew Moore’s beliefs, as he once drew fire as a circuit court judge when he was ordered to remove a plaque listing the Ten Commandments.
But Moore has now come under fire from secular fundamentalists and some in the Christian community for not obeying the court order to remove the 5,300-pound plaque from the state judicial building.
Columnist R. Albert Mohler Jr. wrote that Moore had “not yet exhausted all the legal avenues of appeal open to him.”
Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union have invaded Alabama like the plague. While they have pushed for the secularist agenda and temporarily tabled the issue of practicing one’s faith openly, they continue to be in the wrong.
In “The Federalist No. 78,” Alexander Hamilton pointed out some original intentions and how the courts should work: “The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be in least capacity to annoy or injure them.”
Later in the same paragraph, Hamilton speaks of the courts’ forcefulness by saying, “It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
Clearly, the courts are operating within the legislative powers. The courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, have become involved in culture wars and have pried into every area of life like thieves.
Basically, if the nation turned into an Islamic state, then the majority would have the right to post a statue of the Koran in a judicial building under the same right that Justice Moore has.
The point is that the founding fathers intended this nation to be Christian. They thought if this nation ever came to the point where it moved away from the Christian God, that it would not matter anyway.
Justice Moore has every right to keep the Ten Commandments in the state judicial building under the Constitution, state and nationally. The people of the United States have a right to have God represented in their government institutions.
The people should tell the courts how to operate and keep secular obstructionists from violating the law under the Constitution.

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