The Chief Justice of Alabama, Roy Moore, and a cadre of co-conspirators, snuck into the state courthouse in the dead of night to emplace in the center of the rotunda a 2.5-ton monument enscribed with the Ten Commandments. A federal appeals court has found that Moore's monument lacks secular purpose and advances the interests of one specific religious tradition. The monument, they said, must be removed.
So far, all is proceeding as expected. Moore's a bit of a lunatic, famous for statements like "sodomy is an inherent evil" while ruling in favor of a violent, convicted-felon, in-drug-rehab father over a lesbian mother in a custody dispute. Moore's even gone so far as to favorably quote Christian reconstructionists, who believe that homosexuality should be an offense punishable by death. He's a follower of D. James Kennedy, a man who I know mostly by way of the evolution debate: in his sermons he so warps science that he had better hope there's not a Hell or he's headed there for lies and deceptions.
Anyway, a kind-of ordinary debate about ordinary religiophiles, even if one is Chief Justice of Alabama. What's important is that there is now an outstanding court order for the removal of Moore's Ten Commandments monument from government property.
It is the duty of the U.S. Marshalls to enforce all outstanding court orders once all appeals have been exhausted. Now, Republican John Hostettler of Indiana has introduced a measure, approved by the House of Representatives, dictating that no federal money may be disbursed by any agency to enforce the order.
Have we got that? By a vote of 260 to 161, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to ignore the law of the land.
Hostettler has also sponsored and seen approved a measure withholding money from any agency that seeks to prevent retributive actions against students who refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He was outraged that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that forcing students to recite the Pledge was unconstitutional. That passed 307-191.
Finally, a lemming: ( What kind of sexy am I? )
I don't think so.
So far, all is proceeding as expected. Moore's a bit of a lunatic, famous for statements like "sodomy is an inherent evil" while ruling in favor of a violent, convicted-felon, in-drug-rehab father over a lesbian mother in a custody dispute. Moore's even gone so far as to favorably quote Christian reconstructionists, who believe that homosexuality should be an offense punishable by death. He's a follower of D. James Kennedy, a man who I know mostly by way of the evolution debate: in his sermons he so warps science that he had better hope there's not a Hell or he's headed there for lies and deceptions.
Anyway, a kind-of ordinary debate about ordinary religiophiles, even if one is Chief Justice of Alabama. What's important is that there is now an outstanding court order for the removal of Moore's Ten Commandments monument from government property.
It is the duty of the U.S. Marshalls to enforce all outstanding court orders once all appeals have been exhausted. Now, Republican John Hostettler of Indiana has introduced a measure, approved by the House of Representatives, dictating that no federal money may be disbursed by any agency to enforce the order.
Have we got that? By a vote of 260 to 161, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to ignore the law of the land.
Hostettler has also sponsored and seen approved a measure withholding money from any agency that seeks to prevent retributive actions against students who refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He was outraged that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that forcing students to recite the Pledge was unconstitutional. That passed 307-191.
Finally, a lemming: ( What kind of sexy am I? )
I don't think so.
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