August 28, 2003

If at first you don't succeed

The pro-Decalogue crowd (calling it the 10-commandments is so yesterday) has filed - you guessed it - another lawsuit in federal court (For people who hate the courts, they sure seem to love lawsuits). It is being handled by the same judge who ordered to monument moved in the first place.

Supporters of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a new federal lawsuit Thursday asking that a monument of the Ten Commandments be returned to the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building, alleging that Moore's eight associate justices showed hostility to religion and discriminated against Christians by removing the monument.

We find ourselves back at the question, how does any of this count as discrimination. Are there other religious monuments which are being allowed to stay? (I suppose you might make a 'hostility' argument, though I'm guessing that a judge who ordered the monument moved is going to have a hard time finding the 8 justices who followed the order of the judge hostile).


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Moore(<--PUN!) from FOX

"I came here to make a statement about what we all believe. We're in a great moral struggle of our own. It can be said that people of faith are being sent to the back of the bus -- and we're not gonna go there," Dobson said, comparing the struggle to that of Rosa Parks (search), which also took place in Montgomery

I'm taking bets as to how long it will take before they start comparing this to the holocaust. Back of the bus? They're not being asked to sit in the back, they're just being asked to ride the same bus as everyone else. Other faiths aren't allowed to play their 'radio of god' on the bus, why should they be allowed to?

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Posted by Henry at 02:37 AM || Link to me || Category:: Just left of God