Ex-Judge Roy Moore publishes new book on 10 Commandments monument

[Sparkly]

Ex-Justice Describes Commandments Fight

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By BOB JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore acknowledges having feelings of "doubt and fear" on the night of July 31, 2001, as he sat alone in his state courthouse office awaiting delivery of a Ten Commandments monument he wanted to install in the rotunda.

In a new book, "So Help Me God," Moore describes that night as the completion of a lifelong mission to use his position as the state's highest judge to publicly display a symbol of his religion.

It was also the beginning of a two-year fight that ended with Moore becoming the first chief justice in Alabama's history to be expelled from office after he refused a federal judge's order to remove the monument from the judicial building's rotunda. He appealed his ouster to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites), but lost.

He says he knew that night there would be repercussions to installing the 5,200-pound granite monument in a public building and that news reporters and his fellow justices on the Alabama Supreme Court would question his motives. He said he knew that the monument "would be difficult for them to understand."

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[Pacifist Patriot]

1. May it sell not a single copy.

Good grief.

[Sandpiper]

2. What a self-aggrandizing ass this guy is

Nobody outside of Alabama knew this guy's name before he decided to turn himself into a faux religious martyr.

[Cyrano]

3. How long before Bush appoints this Troglodyte to the Supreme Court?

[BlueJazz]

4. I think he got something wrong though:

Instead of:

"He said he knew that the monument "would be difficult for them to understand."

He should have written:

He said he knew that the monument "would be difficult for any intelligent Human with the IQ over a Slug, to understand."

[cornermouse]

5. Modern version of the Golden Calf.

[SemperEadem]

6. a book on the graven image that the xtians are worshipping?

[TlalocW]

7. What I love is that

He had to do all this by skulking around in the middle of the night like a thief. "Gee... I'm not brave it enough to try it in the daytime, and I'm too chicken to go through proper channels because I'll be told no, but I need to show everyone what a super-Xtian I am."

TlalocW

[Sparkly]

8. haha!

He's a stealthy saint...

[Mist]

9. How old is this asswipe?

Can he be retired for senile dementia?

[zbdent]

10. Let me guess: Published by Regnery? Or maybe that whore ReganBooks

I bet this was all a ploy to sell books (to use Repuke logic . . . oh, God, now I have to shower . . . )