Our Modern-Day Interposer, Judge Roy Moore | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore understood the unconstitutionality of the Incorporation Doctrine. He understood the decisions amounted to judicial over-reach and judicial tyranny. And so, in 2001, when the first of two lawsuits was brought demanding that he take down the a 5,280-pound (2,400 kg) block of granite with the Ten Commandments engraved on it, which was placed in front of the Alabama state courthouse, he stood his ground. In the case Glassroth v. Moore (Fed District Court, 2003) [and the companion case Maddox and Howard v. Moore], the court agreed with the plaintiffs, lawyers who were concerned that their clients might feel they would not be treated fairly if they didn't agree with the Judeo-Christian tenets, and held that the statue is an impermissible establishment of religion, violates the First Amendment as incorporated against the state of Alabama by the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore had to be removed. Judge Moore refused. He appealed to the Federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit but the panel of judges affirmed the lower court decision. Again Judge Moore refused to take the statue down. If the federal government wanted to erase any connection to the Ten Commandments at any federal court because God forbid it might convince someone that the government is establishing a national religion, then that was within the government's right. But according to Moore, if the state of Alabama wanted to have the Ten Commandments at their courthouse to remind them "of a higher law," to remind them of the moral foundation of law, and to also remind them of the provision including in the very preamble to the state constitution "that in order to establish justice we must invoke 'the favor and guidance of almighty God,'" it had the right to do so under the rightful interpretation of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, including the Fourteenth Amendment.

    The other judges of the Alabama Supreme Court finally stepped in and had the statue taken away from the courthouse, and Judge Moore was removed from office for his refusal to comply with the federal court decision.

    Indeed, as Mike Scruggs put it: "A great opportunity to insist on both States' Rights and Religious Liberties was forfeited when the Governor and most of the Alabama Supreme Court failed to back Judge Moore in his resistance to federal judicial tyranny."

    All tyranny needs is people to do nothing.

    Our government in Washington DC is full of people who don't know how to say NO or even how to conduct themselves as government officials in accordance with the rightful authority given to them. Day upon day, we allow government tyranny, and especially, judicial tyranny. Do we even realize how many of our rights have been burdened over the years? We say we are "Free" but freedom implies the ability to exercise our God-given rights without condition and without government intervention or regulation. How "freely" are we really able to exercise our rights? Think on that as you self-censor, as you hide the cross around your neck in certain situations, as you decide not to put a bumper sticker on your car, as you decide not to say a prayer before your meal because someone might see you doing so, as you watch 1/3 of your hard-earned money get siphoned off by the government to spend predominantly on items that are unconstitutional, as you break into a sweat when April 15 comes around and you question whether you have saved all your receipts and if you have listed everything on your taxes so that you aren't audited, and as you lose your job because someone in some cubicle somewhere was offended by something you said, posted in your private cubicle, wrote on FB, or something you wore around your neck or embossed on a tote bag.

    Judge Moore may have been an unfavorable candidate, but it is most likely that the allegations against him were fabricated. He may be a flawed individual, but he is the RIGHT kind of individual for government. He is an unashamed, unapologetic, and undeterred interposer. Thomas Jefferson was a flawed man, as the left loves to point out, but he gave us the most consequential and meaningful document that any man has produced for mankind - the Declaration of Independence. The world has never been the same.

    References:

    VIDEO - President Obama, in a press conference, stating "I have a pen and I have a phone." Referenced on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6tOgF_w-yI

    Richard L. Aynes, "On Misreading John Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment," Yale Law Journal, October 1993, Pg. 57. Referenced at: http://www.constitution.org/lrev/aynes_14th.htm

    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm

    "The Short History of the Battle Over the Ten Commandments in Alabama." http://www.wsfa.com/story/421482/short-history-of-the-battle-over-the-ten-commandments-in-alabama

    Lawrence "Mike" Scruggs, The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Myths; 2011, Universal Media (Charlotte, NC), Chapter 6.