Vets group to take Ten Commandments Monument on Tour

[GreyPilgrim]

Here we go, folks. Got this from the Montgomery Advertiser web site. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamabreak16.htm


The 5,280-pound Ten Commandments monument that belongs to former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from office for defying a federal court order, is coming out of the closet -- literally.

The former chief justice has given an American veterans group permission to lift his monument from its spot in a private storage area in the Alabama Judicial Building and take it on a tour across the country. The group will end its tour at the U.S. Capitol.

Moore has asked Congress to allow the monument to be displayed at the Capitol.

“At a time when our sacred institution of marriage is being assaulted by those who would deny the law of God, Americans need to be reminded of our moral foundation,” the former chief justice said today in a statement to the Montgomery Advertiser. “I have agreed to allow the Veterans Standing for God and Country to display the monument in various locations across the country.”

Moore was removed from office in November after defying a federal court order to remove his 2-ton display from the rotunda of the state Judicial Building. The court ruled that the display was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

The monument has been out of public view since August of last year, when eight associate Supreme Court justices ordered it removed. State authorities rolled the granite display into the storage area and, according to building officials, a light has been left shining in the room ever since.

David Williams, public information officer for the Administrative Office of Courts, confirmed today that the veterans group would be traveling to Montgomery to pick up the monument.

However, Williams said that details regarding its removal would not be released.

“For security reasons,” he said, “we would just rather not comment on the logistics of the removal.”

[aquart]

1. Unspeakable silliness.

BTW, WHICH ten commandments?

[Warren DeMontague]

11. #1: Thou Shalt Not Be A Pompus, Self-Righteous Ass...

I'm sure that's in there somewhere, Judge...

[eyesroll]

2. Oy.

You know, it's not even the 10 Commandments part that bugs me -- it's the part about if I tried to install a several-thousand-pound structure in my employer's lobby without permission, I'd be fired and possibly charged with vandalism. And yet this guy -- a judge -- thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants in his employer's lobby, without consequence, because God is supposedly on his side.

[GreyPilgrim]

3. Exactly

The way I see it, he knew he was breaking the law when he had to sneak it in at 2AM.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi GreyPilgrim!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mika]

19. GOD is Roy Moore's employer (in his mind)

n/t

[Syrinx]

4. they shouldn't let Moore take custody until...

He reimburses the state for all the ridiculous legal fees he cause them.

[LiberalFighter]

14. And labor costs and storage costs and fumigation costs

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Perhaps they could build an "Arc of the Covenant" to haul it around?

:eyes:

[Bozita]

6. Thomas Frank wrote of Repug tactics in the culture wars

This fits right in with his op-ed in Friday's NYT. Frank said that the proposed marriage amendment was a scheme in which the Repugs win by losing.

This looks like the next chapter of the same book.

[oneighty]

7. Veterans in that American Veterans group

please be prepared to show proof of service. Phony veterans, there are so many of you.

180

[gmoney]

8. Is this like the "Elvis's Coat" tour?

Remember the SNL bit where Elvis's gold lamé coat was just on a hanger in front of the stage while Elvis songs played... during "All Shook Up" someone sort of wiggled it, then at the end, it descended up to heaven.

Inanimate objects on tour! Catch the fever!

[GoldenOldie]

9. Just when you think??????

they can't get any more ridiculous. Who do these idiots think they are????? Is it like the adoration of the golden calf. They apparently have no understanding of the teachings of Christ and somehow believe they are the deliverer's of the message yet they follow the anti-christ teachings via George W. Bush. Keep their monolithic. marble, man-made crap out of my state and my backyard. I don't need some fundie uncaring piece of crap telling me or my family how or what to beleive. I know the 10-commandants, I don't need them to present their chosen piece of granite.

[leesa]

10. How monumentally stupid! God will be pissed...didn't he have a

problem with people worshiping graven images?

[Warren DeMontague]

12. An excellent time for the Americans United Link...

Americans United For Separation of Church And State

Every time someone like Roy ("Gays and Lesbians should be given the death penalty") Moore or Pat Robertson opens their big f*cking mouth, I send these people a check...

[daleo]

13. What makes these people assume veterans are in favor of this

It seems to me that plenty of veterans have no great love of religious icons, either because these things are "graven images", or because they believe in the separation of church and state.

[Jade Fox]

15. 5280 POUNDS??? Masochism alert! I hope they have a lot of money...

for shipping charges.

Next up: The Red Sea hits the road. Coming to your town soon!

[Ernesto]

17. And they wonder why so many Viet vets shun veteran's groups. n/t

[Bluebear]

18. Oh sign me up, sign me up.

Just what I want to see on tour, a rock.