Alabama’s chief justice: Buddha didn’t create us so First Amendment only protects Christians

[MindMover]

Speaking at the Pastor for Life Luncheon, which was sponsored by Pro-Life Mississippi, Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court declared that the First Amendment only applies to Christians because “Buddha didn’t create us, Mohammed didn’t create us, it was the God of the Holy Scriptures” who created us.

“They didn’t bring the Koran over on the pilgrim ship,” he continued. “Let’s get real, let’s go back and learn our history. Let’s stop playing games.”

He then noted that he loves talking to lawyers, because he is a lawyer who went to “a secular law school,” so he knows that “in the law, just isn’t politically correct.” He claimed that this is why America has “lost its way,” and that he would be publishing a pamphlet “this week, maybe next” that contained copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, thereby proving that all the people “who found this nation — black, white, all people, all religions, all faiths” knew that America was “about God.”


Chief Justice Moore later defined “life” via Blackstone’s Law — a book that American lawyers have “sadly forgotten” — as beginning when “the baby kicks.” “Today,” he said, “our courts say it’s not alive ’til the head comes out.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/02/alabamas-chief-justice-buddha-didnt-create-us-so-first-amendment-only-protects-christians/

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and we wonder how could GW steal one election and win another .... only in America

[pscot]

1. Of the morons, by the morons and for the morons

[MindMover]

2. Absolutely positively moronic ... nt

[WillyT]

3. And This Asshole Gets To Sit In Judgement Of Others...

[MindMover]

5. and you know what he is thinking now that he said this asshat shit ... nt

[MrScorpio]

4. So does this mean that non-Christians in Alabama should not have any expectation...

Of fair and impartial treatment in the State Supreme Court?

[pscot]

9. Alabama justice seems to be a non-sequitur

[2pooped2pop]

35. yep, that seems certain

wear a cross or lose your case. This guy should not be in any position of power.

[Ed Suspicious]

39. I can tell you, in the spirit of self preservation, if I were accused of a crime in a southern state

I would become the god-fearingest man around. Rosary around my neck, USA pin on my lapel. Praise Jesus, not the one that tells you to help the poor and downtrodden, but the one that explains your honor's wealth, sense of entitlement, sanctimony, and inability to accept others as virtues of xtianity. PRAISE JESUS!

[dawg]

44. God no! Unless you get caught in Louisiana don't you dare wear a rosary to court in the South.

Them's idolatrous Mary-worshippin' devil beads.

[Ed Suspicious]

54. Good point. I was born catholic in the midwest. I forgot they weren't real christians. ;)

[Coventina]

6. ?????? But, by his world-view, didn't God create Buddhists and Muslims?

And, if he's trying to claim Christianity has rights for being "first", what about the religious beliefs of the Native Americans?

Oh, right, the Constitution probably doesn't apply to them either, according to him.

Pretty scary that he's in such a powerful position.

These guys make me want to

[cthulu2016]

7. But Moore doesn't believe life begins when the baby kicks

Surely he believes it begins much earlier than that.

First kick tends to be 16 to 22 weeks.

Does Moore support abortion rights through 16-22 weeks? I am guessing not.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Why don't they remove him from the bench?

Ideas that are this skewed just bring on acceptance of other similar convoluted reasoning.

[dembotoz]

11. that state is rather red. His job is probably safer than.... add your on homey idiom

[MrScorpio]

15. They tried that before about ten years ago, just after his Ten Commandment monument stunt...

I was in Montgomery during that time, USAF training and I pretty much saw the crap happening first hand. There were a bunch of pro-monument protesters on the courthouse steps day and night. These fools didn't have lives apparently.

One funny thing I saw on the TV was where this one protester was getting interviewed for the local news. The news person asked him why he was protesting and he said that he was there to help protect the country's freedom of religion... The kicker was when the reporter followed that up when she asked him if he would protest in favor of a Hindu or Islamic monument. Of course, the guy said that he wouldn't... Because America is a Christian nation in his opinion. I found it amusing that this fool just admitted that he was a fucking hypocrite to a TV camera.

I also found it amusing that they stood up on those steps and prayed that a marble graven idol to the Ten Commandments was not removed from the Court, something that has one commandment written on it that one should not worship graven idols.

Roy Moore's people, everybody!

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Trained for obedience, not for reasoning.

It's the only way they can protect their autocratic society.

[Cartoonist]

10. As an Atheist

I demand his resignation. I do not want a theocracy in a country whose founding fathers established religious freedom. I DEMAND this idiot's resignation.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Is this the same God that created smallpox, plague, cancer, and hangnails?

And, the same God who knows all, sees all, even the future, and planted the tree of knowledge and told Adam and Eve not to eat of it...while knowing in advance that they would eat of it and then got pissed off at them after they did what He knew they would?

If so, methinks there's a design flaw in God 1.0.

[nyquil_man]

27. "Free will" is the universal cop-out for that.

When God fails, blame humans.

[yellowcanine]

51. Don't forget yeast infections.

[Xyzse]

13. It's amazing that they keep forgetting that...

Mohammed is only a Prophet, supposedly a greater prophet than JC, and the Islamic and Christian God are one and the same.

[Paladin]

17. There's that prohibition against establishment of religion thing, as well..... (nt)

[Xyzse]

19. I agree...

Was just mentioning that, since some religious zealots forget that common thread.

[JackRiddler]

38. No they're not.

Since this "god," He or it or they, is-are fictional character(s), the Islamic and Christian god are not "the same." They are renderings of an idea by different authors, as received by billions of recipients through countless interpretative frameworks and personal impressions. In fact, it cannot even be said there is one Christianity or one Islam, let alone one "god" shared by all of the hundreds of sects within these broad traditions. (True, the variation within each of these religious groupings is greater than the variation between the average "Islam" and the average "Christianity.&quot

[Xyzse]

55. It is true that since they are fictional character(s), they are all different renderings

Of an idea from the same source.

Basically the Abrahamic idea of god.

I mean, it can be argued that within every single person is a different variation of "God".

In fact, I will state now, that even though I was born in a Christian faith, whatever supposed god I am unsure I believe in or not, is definitely not the same god many in the right worship, it certainly isn't the same interpretation that my mother worships.

Still, I just like being able to tweak some Christians' noses about saying that they have the same god as Muslims. It's fun, because I can't have that same type of discussion with them, in mentioning that "god" is just an idea. They turn red.

[phantom power]

14. wow

[Rider3]

16. and their insanity continues

[truebrit71]

20. Shouldn't that pretty much excuse him from the bench then?

Why does he still have a job?

[el_bryanto]

21. You know I'm starting to lose respect for Chief Justice Roy Moore nt

[ismnotwasm]

22. And what of the creation stories of Native Americas?

They were here millennia before Christians.

Another nut job. Sometimes I think they crawl out of Stephan King's ( the author) universe

[progressoid]

23. " let’s go back and learn our history"

Not your version of history, Roy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. I hadn't realised Alabama had re-elected this moron

Chief Justice should never be an elected position. This is the kind of crap you get with that - a demagogue spitting on the Constitution to promote his extreme version of one religion.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

25. Jesus H. Christ

[3catwoman3]

30. ...on toast.

Or a raft, or whatever.

This is appalling

[trusty elf]

31. .....on a windshield

[IMG][/IMG]

[Major Nikon]

36. ... on a dog's ass

[hootinholler]

43. On a trailer hitch

[arcane1]

26. Historically ignorant dumb-ass.

Yeah, the pilgrims founded America

[Half-Century Man]

28. To run his logic to the end...

Since G*d predates christianity by at least a biblical 4000 years, The First Amendment protects G*d, but not christianity. The legendary Jewish Rabbi Jesus, upon whom christianity is based, was the son of the creator; brought into being far post-creation.

[yallerdawg]

29. Roy Moore was removed...

as Chief Justice several years ago for refusing to remove the 10 Commandments statue he had brought in after being told to remove a 10 Commandments sign in his courtroom.

He unsuccessfully ran as a Republican candidate for a while.

Meanwhile, the lone Democrat in the Alabama Supreme Court resigned in disgust. So when Moore saw a chance to run against an unelected replacement (a Democrat in the reddest state in the Union), he became our Chief Justice again!

And Alabama got even redder.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. thanks, lone democrat, for your total lack of foresight

at the likely outcome of your decision to resign.

Living your principles is one thing; putting them above real consequences that are even worse is another story.

[shenmue]

32. Memo to Justice Dumb-ass

There is no official religion.

Sorry.

[robbob]

33. "My invisible sky-god is more powerful then your invisible sky-god"

That's what it boils down to....

[joe_stampingbull]

34. the war against ignorance...

and bigotry seems endless but we must keep trying. I don't even know where to start with this savage idiot...sigh

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. seriously.

and welcome!

[sakabatou]

37. He needs to be removed, but I doubt that will happen (unless it already did).

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. Oh yeah,...there were all kinds of colors represented at the signing of the constitution....

White, off white, lily white....

BTW: Where are the women?

[hootinholler]

41. Wasn't this skidmark part of Don Seigleman's incarceration?

Name rings a bell.

[mindwalker_i]

42. God didn't create us either

But he did create Jupiter after going to Taco Bell.

And he created black holes after inventing zero and dividing something by it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. Actually, ... Jefferson had a copy of the Quran. And, like Obama, he was ...

In the smear campaign before the election for the presidency of the United States, one candidate was accused by his opponents of being a closet Muslim. Some Christians “viewed all Muslims as agents of religious error and a foreign threat.” The United States faced a hostage crisis, as many Americans were taken hostage by Muslim powers and freed only after a ransom was paid. {...} A “social Christian,” hoping to preserve “a purely Protestant Christian America,” was worried that aliens might take over the reins of power in the country and opined that “the few ... Jews, Mahomedans, Atheists or Deists among us” must, in the name of prudence and justice, be excluded “fromour publick offices.”

The time was not the 2000s but the 1790s, and the presidential candidate was Thomas Jefferson, who was, in Denise Spellberg’s words, “the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the eighteenth century.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117173/thomas-jeffersons-quran-denise-spellberg-reviewed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. Chief Justice eh?

Alabama must be so proud. This is one of the states Boeing wants to relocate its R&D to.

[BlueJac]

49. A ship of fools has sail to the US...

in the name of Christians. WTF has happen to this country? American Taliban?

[yellowcanine]

50. Moore thinks "life begins when the baby kicks"?????? Christotaliban ain't going to like that.

They think life begins at conception. Or maybe Moore thinks the baby kicks right after it is conceived?

[herding cats]

52. How did he get reinstated?!

I know for a fact he was removed from his position as Chief Justice back in 2003 over his refusal to comply with a federal judges orders to remove the ten commandments monument from the judicial building in Alabama. Now here he is Chief Justice again. WTF?

[dawg]

53. Jesus commanded us to love others the same as we love ourslves.

I, for one, would not want to have my rights denied on the basis of my religion (or lack thereof). Therefore, if I am serious about following Christ's teachings, I won't do that to members of any other religion either.

I don't understand how so many people who claim to be Christians are too stupid to understand that.

[AverageJoe90]

56. 150 years ago, conservatives from that very same region used to claim that the Bill of Rights.......

applied to white (and Christian!) Anglo-Saxons only. Of course, that wasn't the actual intent of the Founders when the Constitution was being written up, but that's what the far-right, especially down there in plantation country, really wanted people to believe, even before slavery became widely seen as a so-called "positive good". And it took almost 80 years to clarify that. Slightly different line of B.S., same general method.

So get a fuckin' clue, Roy Moore.

[GeorgeGist]

57. Pssst ...

Jesus didn't create us.

[Arkana]

58. Boy, they'll go to any lengths to deny people religious freedom

and they're slowly trying to worm Christianity in as the "unofficial" state religion.

[indepat]

59. Might make sense if Christianity is the official state religion as inscribed in the

Constitution. Otherwise the Chief Justice of Alabama should keep his 'effin' mouth shut and resign his office pronto.

[Gothmog]

60. This is the same idiot who fought to keep the 10 Commandments in the Courthouse

This idiot has issues with the separation of church and state